For many UK higher education business schools, the continued recruitment of UK, EU and
international students is crucial for financial stability, viability and independence. Due to …

Until recently government policy in the UK has encouraged an expansion of higher
education to increase participation and with an express aim of creating a more edu cated …

Higher education in the UK has been characterised in the last two decades by significant
and rapid change. Despite the expansion of higher education (HE) that had taken place in …

In the previous chapter, we reviewed higher education policy in Australia and the UK and
demonstrated how the view of higher education as a public good became obsolete with the …

Higher education has never been more important than it is today at the start of the twenty-
first century. It is central to an increasingly technological and knowledge-driven economy …

This paper provides a critical interrogation of government-led reform of higher education
(HE) in England. Its focus is marketisation, and in particular, the concepts of 'value for …

This is one American's account of what I call the British fear and loathing of tuitions fees. It
comes from the perspective of one who has been examining international comparative …

Since the late 1970s the culture of academic life has been transformed by the
institutionalisation of the policies of marketisation. At least outwardly universities …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of rising fees and the
increasing privatisation of higher education on the expectations of its students. It compares …

The paper seeks to link the structural and the institutional to learning outcomes in order to
articulate a research agenda capable of evaluating the impact of consumerism on learning …