The global economic crisis has required governments across the globe to reconsider their spending priorities. It is within this demanding economic context that higher education systems have been steadily restructured with in many ways the English model in the vanguard of change. This book focuses in particular upon the policy of removing almost entirely public support for the payment of student fees. This has emerged from a steady process of change, which has broad political support and is underwritten by the idea that higher education is now seen more as a private than a public, good. As this shift has occurred (not a new innovation but rather a return to what once prevailed as more of a market in English higher education) so the relationship between government and the higher education has evolved with the latter now attempting to steer the development of the system through a state-regulated market. The book has a strong comparative dimension that draws upon US higher education to illustrate both the possible advantages and potential hazards to the marketization strategy. It concludes that any such strategy needs to be accompanied by state regulation if it is to function effectively, particularly to stimulate price competition, encourage innovation from new entrants, and provide consumer protection for students paying high fees.

Reshaping the University: The Rise of the Regulated Market in Higher Education

Business & Money

Palfreyman, David

Tapper, Ted

Management & Leadership

Oxford University Press

Education and the Political Order: Changing Patterns of Class Control

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Political education and stability: Elite responses to political conflict

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

wiley

The State and Higher Education: State & Higher Educ. (Woburn Education Series)

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Salter, Brian

Salter, Dr Brian

Higher & Continuing Education

Routledge

Examining the history of access to private education this work sheds light on the interaction of state, society and schooling. Organized historically, much of the analysis concentrates on contemporary political struggles, and evaluates the possibility of a unified educational system.

Fee-paying Schools and Educational Change in Britain: Between the State and the Marketplace (Woburn Education Series)

History

Europe

Fee-paying Schools and Educational Change in Britain: Between the State and the Marketplace

Oxford is one of the world’s great universities but this has not meant that it is exempt from pressures for change. On various fronts it has been required to meet the challenges that universities almost worldwide have to face. Given the retrenchment of public funding, especially to support undergraduate teaching, it has been required to augment its financial base, while at the same time deciding how to respond to pressure from successive governments determined to use higher education to achieve their own policy goals. While still consistently ranked as a world-class university, it has to decide how it is to acquire the funding to continue in this league, or whether this goal is worth pursuing. Oxford is a collegiate university, which means its colleges share with the University responsibility for the delivery of its central goals. Is this balance of authority shifting over time? If so, how is this to be accounted for, and what are the likely outcomes for the collegiate university? This book sets out to address these questions and arrives at an essentially positive conclusion. Oxford will continue to remain an effective collegiate university and, while its identity will change, its central character will persist.

Oxford, the Collegiate University: Conflict, Consensus and Continuity (Higher Education Dynamics, 34)

Springer

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