Everything for sale? : the marketisation of UK higher education /

The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being introduced or increased, usually at the expense of state grants to institutions. Grants for student support are being replaced o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brown, Roger, 1947-
Corporate Author: James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund
Other Authors: Carasso, Helen, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : 2013
Series:Research into higher education (SRHE)
Research into higher education monographs
Research into higher education
Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) series
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction 1
  • 2 Markets and non-markets 11
  • 3 The institutional pattern of provision 29
  • 4 The funding of research 41
  • 5 The funding of undergraduate education 71
  • 6 Quality assurance 99
  • 7 The impact of marketisation: efficiency, diversity and equity 123
  • 8 The impact of marketisation: quality 144
  • 9 Lessons from marketisation 164