Beschreibung:
As well as helping to explain the evolution of British higher education over the past thirty years, this book contains some important messages about the consequences of introducing or extending market competition in universities' core activities of teaching and research.
1. Introduction 2. Markets and Non-Markets 3. The Institutional Pattern of Provision 4. The Funding of Research 5. The Funding of Student Education 6. Quality Assurance 7. The Impact of Marketisation: Efficiency, diversity and equity 8. The Impact of Marketisation: Quality 9. Lessons from Marketisation