| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
The governance of British higher education: state, market, and institutional decision-making -- Exploring the unitary model: a diversity of definitions -- The Dearing report: sustaining British higher education as a system -- Universities and markets: (I) Historical background and contemporary context -- Universities and markets: (II) Theory and critical debate -- The student as consumer: legal framework and practical reality -- The rise of the research agenda: redefining the academic mission -- The globalization of higher education: coping with rankings and league tables while delivering more and charging less -- The HE industry: speaking with more than one voice -- Responding to the state-regulated market: higher education institutions under duress -- The descent from acropolis to agora: the entry of the for-profits -- From public good to market-place: from provider state to regulatory state |
| Summary |
This work aims to understand the development of higher education over recent decades by exploring in particular the context and consequences of the decline in public funding to support undergraduate teaching, and the increasing diversification and stratification within national systems |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 8, 2014) |
| Subject |
Education, Higher.
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
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Education and state.
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higher education.
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Education and state
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Education, Higher
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Education, Higher -- Economic aspects
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Studienfinanzierung
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Bildungspolitik
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Hochschulfinanzierung
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Großbritannien
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tapper, Ted, author.
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| ISBN |
9780191781551 |
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019178155X |
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9780191635724 |
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0191635723 |
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