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Showing papers on "White paper published in 1977"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the recent White Paper as a "pretentious failure" to secure allocational efficiency between road and rail, but the problems of railway finance and local public transport are fundamentally untouched.
Abstract: The authors describe the recent White Paper as a "pretentious failure" to secure allocational efficiency between road and rail. It recognizes the need for "unorthodox" rural transport and for better subsidy management, but the problems of railway finance and local public transport are fundamentally untouched.

8 citations


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TL;DR: The controversy over devolution has reached a new level of intensity since November, 1975, when the government, in an effort to resolve the dispute, published a White Paper entitled Our Changing Democracy: Devolution to Scotland and Wales.
Abstract: The United Kingdom, already beleaguered in the mid-1970's by a number of serious problems—economic, social, political, diplomatic and even climatic—in addition has had to contend with a far-reaching constitutional crisis. Involving the subject of devolution of power (better known as home rule), it has been described as “the most crucial constitutional issue which has confronted the United Kingdom since it came into being.” The controversy over devolution has reached a new level of intensity since November, 1975, when the government, in an effort to resolve the dispute, published a White Paper entitled Our Changing Democracy: Devolution to Scotland and Wales . This article examines the following aspects of the devolution issue: its background, why it has emerged at this time, why the White Paper was issued, reasons for the hostile reaction to the White Paper, the prospects for parliamentary passage of devolution legislation, and the issue's political repercussions and implications, both domestic and international.

2 citations


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TL;DR: Hoggart as discussed by the authors has been appointed to chair an Advisory Council on Adult and Continuing Education "to advise generally on matters relevant to the provision of education for adults... and in particular, to promote cooperation and review current practice, organisation and priorities, with a view to the most effective deployment of the available resources; and to promote the development of future policies andpriorities, with full regard to the concept of education as a process continuing throughout life".
Abstract: The White Paper of I972 Education: A Framework for Expansion ignored adult education, with the excuse that its future was under review by the Russell Committee. The Committee reported the following year, suggesting "an immediate practical advance towards an integrated provision, by using in a systematic way the elements already there". The aim of the Chairman was to produce a limited, pragmatic set of proposals that no Government could ignore. Had it not been for the Barber cuts and the continuing climate of retrenchment in public expenditure, that strategy might have succeeded. As it was, it made a minor impact on the thinking of the Department and on the more enlightened LEAs, but led to no fundamental reappraisal. The so-called 'great educational debate' launched by the Prime Minister in 1976/7, was limited to the schools. Adult education still seemed "outside the constituency of the DES", as the OECD complained in I975. Now in August, I977, after four years' pressure, the DES has at last accepted a major recommendation of Russell, and appointed Richard Hoggart to chair an Advisory Council on Adult and Continuing Education "to advise generally on matters relevant to the provision of education for adults . . . and in particular, to promote cooperation ... and review current practice, organisation and priorities, with a view to the most effective deployment of the available resources; and to promote the development of future policies andpriorities, with full regard to the concept of education as a process continuing throughout life". Perhaps the Committee will in due course be successful in persuading the Department to give a national lead in establishing adult education as part of the "varied and comprehensive educational service in every area" called for in the 1944 Act. It will be in the nick of time, before many LEAs price adult classes out of existence in their frenetic pursuit of false economies. The title of the new Committee, and its Chairman's five years' experience at UNESCO, indicate that the approach may now be widened to take in for the first time in Britain some at least of the continental thinking of continuing, permanent, recurrent or life-long education which Russell disregarded as a long term concept, but which is steadily gaining ground in educational thought. Before speculating on future possibilities, however, the purpose of this article is to review the current situation in the light of the Russell recommendations. The Russell Committee was limited by its terms of reference to 'non-vocational adult education', a distinction increasingly realised as being unreal. Its main concern was with the existing agencies, the LEAs and 'responsible bodies', and it gave only subsidiary attention to the emerging role of the media in 'education at a distance', and to the needs of industry. It found itself concerned with 'barely I% of the national education budget' and some two million part time students, and modestly felt that doubling the provision to cater for one in nine of the adult population would not be unreasonable or extravagant.

2 citations


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TL;DR: The main policy instruments employed to achieve the objectives stated in the 1974 White Paper are discussed in this article in relation to the goals of petroleum policy and the overall impression is that following the recent spate of legislative and tax procedures some of the uncertainties relating to profitability and security of investment in UK offshore waters have now been resolved.