The Governance of British Higher Education: The Impact of Governmental, Financial and Market Pressures

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Author bio
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Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Acronyms
A Timeline
1 Introduction
2 The Transformation from a Self-Governed to a ‘Regulated’ Higher Education System
	System governance pre-1992
	The Further and Higher Education Act 1992
	The departmental superstructure
	Funding and its impact on system governance
	The development of the market as an instrument of policy
	The creation of new governance machinery: the Office for Students
	The creation of a private sector within higher education: the rise of the ‘alternative providers’
	The sector’s representative bodies
	System governance and institutional governance
3 The Impact of Devolved Government: Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England
	Towards a tertiary education system in Wales
	The assertion of a Scottish higher education identity
	Stalemate in Northern Ireland
	The four systems compared
4 The Changing Pattern of Institutional Governance
	Uncertainty in the relationship between the governing body and the academic community
	Senates and academic boards
	The rise of the executive
	The ‘laicization’ of university governance
	Students in university governance
	Governance and the individual academic
	The destabilizing of university governance
5 University Governance and Academic Work: Pressures on Innovation and Creativity
	The research system
	Research and institutional differentiation
	Research and the academic autonomy of the individual
	Academic priorities, teaching and the market
	Bureaucracy and regulation
	The power of the executive
	Authority structures in higher education
6 Globalization and Higher Education Governance
	The evolving global architecture
	The EU modernization and research agenda
	International organizations and the accountability agenda
	Global rankings and the internationalization of British higher education
	Perceptions of global and European influences on British higher education
	Discrepancies between perceptions of global influences and practice
	Heterogeneity of strategies, outreach and reference points within a single institution
	Governance, its conceptualization and globalization
7 The Strategic Implications of the Changing Governance Structures in British Higher Education
	The role of the state
	Higher education and the market
	For-profit higher education
	Is university governance fit for purpose?
	The academic community
	The student voice
	The global environment
	Policymaking
References
Works Cited
Index