The marketisation of English higher education : a policy analysis of a risk-based system / by Colin McCaig.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Front Cover; The Marketisation of English Higher Education; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction: The Marketisation of English Higher Education; Structure of the Book; Chapterisation; Neoliberal Differentiation; Marketisation as Part of the Neoliberal Imaginary; A Definition of Neoliberalism in the English HE Context; Approaches to Policy Discourse Analysis; 1. The Genesis of Market Reforms: Efficiency, Accountability and the Celebration of Diversity; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Accountability and Efficiency

1.3. Jarratt and Croham: The business Case for Accountability and Efficiency1.4. The Second Stage of Marketisation: The Coming and Celebration of System Diversity; 1.5. The Abolition of the Binary Divide -- The 1992 Further and Higher Education Act; 1.6. Dearing and the New Labour Government: Diversity with a Differential Purpose; 1.7. Efficiency and Human Capital Maximisation: The Learning Society; 1.8. Dearing, New Labour and the Introduction of Tuition Fees; 1.9. Diversity into the 2000s; 1.10. Summary; 2. From Diversity to Differentiation: The Coming of the Market

2.1. The 2003 White Paper and Higher Education Act 20042.2. The Argument for Reform: Variable Tuition Fees; 2.3. The Limitations of the 2004 HE Act: Differentiation without Competition; 2.4. The Long Road from Differentiation to Competition; 2.5. The Fourth Stage: Student Number Controls and Market-incentivised Differentiation; 2.6. Choice as the New Frontier; 2.7. The Strange Death of Student Number Controls; 2.8. Summary; 3. The Higher Education and Research Act 2017: The Road to Risk and Exit; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. Risk for Applicants and Students

3.3. Risk for Institutions: Regulatory Reform3.4. Caveat Emptor: The Buyer Takes on the Risk; 3.5. Developing Discourses: From the Green to White Paper and Act; 3.6. A Risk-based Quality System; 3.7. Summary; 4. Continuity and Discontinuity on the Road to Risk and Exit: Stages of Marketisation in Comparative Policy Analysis; 4.1. Analysis: The Five Stages of Marketisation; Stage 1 (1986-1992); Key Discursive Elements; Summary; Stage 2 (1992-2000); Key Discursive Elements; Summary; Stage 3 (2000-2010); Key Discursive Elements; Summary; Stage 4 (2010-2015); Key Discursive Elements; Summary

Stage 5 (2015- )Key Discursive Elements; Summary; 4.2. Discussion: Continuities, Discontinuities and Reimaginings in Marketisation Discourses; 4.2.1. Centralisation versus Autonomy; 4.2.2. Efficiency in Public Services/Individual Return on Investment; 4.2.3. Funding Mode; 4.2.4. New Sources of Income; 4.2.5. Human Capital; 4.2.6. Widening Participation -- Diversity as a Good; 4.2.7. Quality; 4.2.8. Tuition Fees; 4.2.9. Opening Up the Market and Choice for Applicants; 4.3. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

This book traces the development of a fully marketised higher education system in England over a 30-year period, and identifies five distinct stages of market reforms culminating in the Higher Education and Research Act. It employs a critical policy discourse analysis and addresses several key aspects of the current higher education landscape.

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