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As students pay more for their higher education, there is increasing focus — not least by students themselves — on what it is that they receive when in higher education, the quality of what they receive and the facilities that are available to them.  This has led some people to…

Higher education has changed in many ways in the last two decades, and institutions of higher education have changed as well.  The nature of what is provided, the students, the way education is delivered, the role of technology, the skills required to run them and society’s expectations will be different…

Few topics have raised as much heat recently as that of fair access.  If, in Sir David Watson’s words, there are two issues in relation to widening participation – the big question of increasing the participation of people from disadvantaged backgrounds; and the smaller question of which university they go…

Higher education has always looked beyond national boundaries, but recently this internationalism has taken an entirely new aspect.  Universities are now big business, and many believe that there is a conflict between the cooperative ethos that previously characterised international relations in higher education, and the high degree of competitive behaviour…

All over the world higher education is increasingly being provided on a ‘market’ basis, with more open market entry, fees increasingly approximating to costs, and increased information for students from league tables and the like.  Informed by a paper produced by Professor Roger Brown, following a study tour of the USA,…