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Over the past four decades, English higher education has been fundamentally remade – from a heavily subsidised public good into a competitive neo-market driven by full-cost tuition fees, uncapped student numbers and new commercial providers.
What are the consequences of treating university education as a commodity?
An authoritative and accessible account, Every Student Has Their Price locates the reforms within the broader context of neoliberalism. The book not only explains what changed and why but assesses the cumulative impact and maps the roads not taken – plus paths that remain open still.
Invaluable reading for anyone studying, researching, working or interested in higher education, this book speaks powerfully about the future of universities as public institutions.
Roger Brown is Former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. He was previously Chief Executive of the Higher Education Quality Council, Chief Executive of the Committee of Directors of Polytechnics and Secretary of the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.
Helen Carasso is Honorary Norham Fellow in the University of Oxford's Department of Education. Her involvement within universities began with professional roles in communications, student recruitment and admissions. To better understand the thinking behind national policies that she was seeing impacting the sector, she moved into the study of higher education policy, with a particular interest in funding and student-related issues.
Roger Brown and Helen Carasso previously collaborated on Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education (2013).
1. Introduction: English Higher Education before and after the Reforms
2. Neoliberalism and Higher Education
3. The Higher Education Neo-Market
4. What the Higher Education Neo-Market Means in Practice
5. The Neo-Market: Assessment and Conclusions