A Review on the Historical Studies of University System in the United Kingdom

This paper sets out to review literature on state-university relationships in the United Kingdom. Berdahl (1959) regarded the University Grants Committee (UGC) as an ideal agency which maintained a desirable relationship between the state and the universities. Though Berdahl\u27s theory has been widely accepted, Vernon (2004) claimed that the state had strong influence on the universities in a prehistory of the UGC. The prehistory can be divided into four periods: the foundation of modern universities, the beginning of the university grants, the incorporation of civic universities, and the establishment of the UGC. In order to clarify the state-university relationships, these issues should be analysed