The professionalism of society, the higher education of British elites, and the control of British higher education are addressed in the three papers comprising this report. The rise of a professional society, defined as a society increasingly based on technical or bureaucratic knowledge, and on trained expertise and certification by paper qualifications is discussed in relation to the increasing size and importance of the higher education system. This is followed by an explanation of how the higher education of the major elites in British society since 1880 illustrates both the rise of a professional society and the adaptation to it of the old dominant upper class. Finally, a discussion of the control of British higher education is presented that centers on the parties contending for control: (1) the academics; (2) the university bureaucrats; (3) the students; (4) the potential employers; (5) the lay founders and benefactors of the universities and their successors; (6) the voting taxpayer; (7) the local authorities; (8) the politicians; and (9) the civil servants. (SPG)