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Arkani, S (1999) Contractual interfaces: the implications of building production process management and interorganisational relations for productivity in building project coalitions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Business School, University of Greenwich.
Carbonari, G (2018) Sustainable facilities management with the support of building information modelling, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Built Environment, University of Greenwich.
Connaughton, J N (1993) Making and implementing industrial building investment decisions, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Cooper, J (2015) Sustainable building maintenance within social housing, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Herrero, J J (2003) Columbus: a solution using metadata for integrating document management, project hosting and document control in the construction industry, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich.
Jiang, H (2012) The development of a scenario independent method for evaluating the evacuation complexity of a building, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Keath, M (1983) The development of school construction systems in Hertfordshire 1946-64, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Khan, L R (2014) Reliability estimation and risk-cost optimisation of underground pipelines, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Siddiqui, A A (2019) An investigation into data sharing between building information modelling and fire safety engineering, with potential applications to smart buildings, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Simpson, Y (2014) The potential impact of the HE Educational White Paper 2011 on higher education and professional construction education: professional quantity surveying education in England, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Department of Education & Community Studies, University of Greenwich.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: funding; government; higher education; inequality; quantity surveying; professional; vocation; Delphi technique; future studies
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- URL: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/18096/
- Abstract:
This thesis aims to investigate the effect of the Government's Higher Education White Paper 2011 on the provision of vocational undergraduate degree provision within the UK. In particular the provision of quantity surveying education in the English Higher Education sector will be used as an exemplar. The intention of the study is to glean the potential impact and effects on professionally focused education in the 21st Century. There were two prongs to this study, one reflecting the experience of Australian quantity surveying provision to give some hindsight, the other reviewing the on-going debate between professional education and strategic education as raised by Cardinal Newman (1852). There was attention on the changing role of the state and the rise of individualism, in HE provision. Underlying this study was the anticipated role of knowledge in the form of professional knowledge and competencies. The methodology undertaken was pragmatic and employed mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Future studies (Ratcliffe 2008) had an influence on the data collection methods and a Delphi technique tool was designed to harvest the data, the use of thematic analysis (Brown and Carasso 2013) enabled the construction of themes. Philosophical lens of Bourdieu's cultural capital (1973) and Bhaskar's critical realism (1978) were employed to provide a basis from which to explore the findings of the thesis. The themes which arguably arose were uncertainty, inequality, barriers, quality, marketization, conflict and power. The findings indicated a withdrawal of state from funding professional HE programmes, rise of individualism which acknowledges the cultural capital of professionally accredited courses and a study of power within the community of practice (Wenger 1998) of chartered quantity surveyors. Surprisingly, it is the lack of awareness surrounding the role of knowledge in favour of competencies which may indicate the schism between professional and generalist HE provision.
Thompson, O (2020) Towards a comprehensive understanding of human behaviour in dwelling fires, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , University of Greenwich.
Umeokafor, N I (2017) Realities of construction health and safety regulation in Nigeria, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Design, University of Greenwich.
Zhang, J (2018) Building a sustainability assessment model for highway infrastructure projects in Yunnan, China, Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of Architecture, Design & Construction, University of Greenwich.