List of illustrations ........................................... x
Notes on contributors .......................................... xi
Foreword ...................................................... xvi
Acknowledgements ............................................. xvii
List of abbreviations ....................................... xviii
Editors' introduction: 'Fearful symmetry?': Higher
education and the logic of the market ........................... 1
PKTHR JOHN AND JOELLE FANGHANEL
PART I. The economics of higher education ...................... 13
1 Private commodities and public goods: Markets and values
in higher education ......................................... 15
PETER SCOTT
2 Paying the price of expansion: Why more for undergraduates
in England means less for everyone .......................... 26
HELEN CARASSO AND WILLIAM LOCKE
3 Choice in the learning market: Tokenistic ritual or
democratic education? ....................................... 38
RAJANI NAIDOO
4 Marketing and marketisation: What went wrong, and how can
we put it right? ............................................ 48
ROB CUTHBERT
5 Scotland and the higher education market .................... 57
TONY BRUCE
PART II. Students in a marketised environment .................. 67
6 Contractualising the student experience through university
charters .................................................... 69
IOANNA WILLIAMS
7 UK universities as a single entity: Striking a balance
between public and private needs ............................ 80
BERNARD LONGDEN
8 Some considerations on higher education as a 'post-
experience good' ............................................ 93
MORGAN WHITE
9 The 'unravelling' of English higher education .............. 102
PATRICK AINLEY
PART III. Regulating a marketised sector ...................... 111
10 Regulating risk in the higher education state:
Implications for policy and research ....................... 113
ROGER KING
11 How the Home Office became a regulator of higher
education in England ....................................... 123
GEOEEREY ALDERMAN
12 Making a difference: The roles of markets and the roles of
quality assurance regimes .................................. 132
JOHN BRENNAN
PART IV. Marketisation and higher education pedagogies ........ 141
13 Shifting perspectives on research and teaching
relationships: A view from Australia ....................... 143
ANGELA BREW
14 Developing criticality in learning and teaching through
pedagogical action research ................................ 154
LIN NORTON
15 Reshaping understandings, practices and policies to
enhance the links between teaching and research ............ 164
ALAN JENKINS AND MICK HEALEY
16 Engaging the international scholarly and policy community
through active dialogue on the research-teaching nexus ..... 175
VANEETA D'ANDREA
PART V. Universities' futures ................................. 187
17 A critical reflection on leadership in higher education .... 189
ROBIN MIDDLEHURST
18 Reflections on evidence and higher education policy ........ 201
GARETH WILLIAMS
19 Academic quality and academic responsibility: A critical
reflection on collegial governance ......................... 210
DAVID D. DILL
20 Policy, what policy?: Considering the university in the
twenty-first century ....................................... 223
RONALD BARNETT
Editors' conclusion: Higher education and the market:
Thoughts, themes, threads ..................................... 233
JOELLE HANGHANEL AND PETER JOHN
Index ......................................................... 241
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