Marking the 100th anniversary of the UK Joint University Council and anticipating the next……
| Published date | 01 March 2018 |
| Date | 01 March 2018 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0144739418763847 |
| Author | Ian Elliottt |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
Editorial
Marking the 100
th
anniversary of the UK
Joint University Council
and anticipating
the next ... ...
Ian Elliottt
Queen Mary University, Edinburgh, Scotland
In the UK the year 2018 is filled with notable anniversaries. It is particularly notable for
being the Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 extended the franchise
to certain women over the age of 30. It is also the centenary of The Parliament (Qua-
lification of Women) Act 1918 which enabled women over the age of 21 to stand for
election to Parliament.
Also in 1918 the first ever meeting of the Joint University Council was held at the
London School of Economics. Those present included John St. George Heath, Elizabeth
Macadam, Edward Johns Urwick and Sidney Webb. In Richard Chapman’s compre-
hensive history of the JUC (Chapman 2007) he highlights in particular the role of Heath
as the first JUC Secretary, and Macadam as his successor, in establishing the Joint
University Council. More recently Liddle (2017) has outlined the key drivers in the
establishment of both the JUC and the Institute for Public Administration (later Royal
Institute of Public Administration).
It is clear that from the outset there have been strong links between UK Government
Departments and the JUC. The years since then, and the various challenges to public
administration as a result of public service reform, marketization and indeed the rise of
the Business School within UK Higher Education, are all well documented elsewhere
(Boyne 1996, Chandler 1991, Chandler 2002, Jones 2012). Yet the JUC has remained a
constant feature of UK public administration and we will celebrate our achievements at a
Centenary Event hosted by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manu-
factures and Commerce (RSA) in London on 18 October 2018.
Corresponding author:
Ian Elliottt, Queen Mary University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Email: ielliott@qmu.ac.uk
Teaching Public Administration
2018, Vol. 36(1) 3–5
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