Overview
- Explores how discourses and practices of marketisation, differentiation and equity are manifested in higher education today
- Exposes the contradictions which arise between equity and an increasingly marketised higher education
- Examines the impact of marketisation on equity and equality in higher education
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education (EXE)
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This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising from the tension between aims for increased equality and an increasingly marketised higher education. As the authors seek to reveal both the intended and unintended consequences of the intensified marketisation of the sector, they critically examine the implications of these changes. In doing so, they reveal the ways in which institutional policy and discourse are involved in masking the contradictions between an educational marketplace and education as a vehicle for advancing equality and social justice. This pioneering volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of higher education in England, education policy and the marketisation of higher education, as well as policy makers and practitioners.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marion Bowl is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.
Colin McCaig is Reader in Higher Education Policy at the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Jonathan Hughes was Lecturer in the Centre of Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships at the Open University, UK, and a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy, UK.
Colin McCaig is Reader in Higher Education Policy at the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Jonathan Hughes was Lecturer in the Centre of Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships at the Open University, UK, and a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education
Book Subtitle: A New Level Playing Field?
Editors: Marion Bowl, Colin McCaig, Jonathan Hughes
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Excellence and Equity in Global Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78313-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78312-3Published: 12 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08671-8Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78313-0Published: 24 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-5945
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5953
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Education Economics, Sociology of Education, Education Policy