The risks of risk-based regulation: the regulatory challenges of the higher education White Paper for England

There is a growing trend – not only in this country – for governments to seek to lighten the burden of regulation by focusing their attention on those bodies that are at greatest risk of regulatory failure. This is the approach to regulation of higher education that is proposed by the government in its White Paper on higher education.  This report, by Professor Roger King, examines risk-based regulation as it applies to higher education and the implications of this approach.