Index

Colin McCaig (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)

The Marketisation of English Higher Education

ISBN: 978-1-78743-857-6, eISBN: 978-1-78743-856-9

Publication date: 17 September 2018

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McCaig, C. (2018), "Index", The Marketisation of English Higher Education (Great Debates in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 179-187. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-856-920181006

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INDEX

Academic capitalism
, 12, 128

Academic freedom
, 32, 120

Academic tenure
, 32

Access and Participation Agreement
, 60, 66, 104

Accreditation
, 20, 39

Acts of Parliament
, 3, 22, 25

Affordability
, 159

Aimhigher
, 75, 134, 139

Anti-competitiveness
, 113

Applicant

choice for
, 157–158

risks
, 97–102

Applicant-as-consumer point of view of differentiation
, 14

Apprenticeships
, 97

Approved providers
, 103–104

Architecture reform
, 98

Association of University Teachers (AUT)
, 38, 42, 46, 132

Attendance
, 98

Autonomy versus centralization
, 127–129, 145–147

Baker, Kenneth
, 26

Barber, Pace
, 121

Barber, Sir Michael
, 118–120

Basic fees
, 58, 75

Block grants
, 128

Blunkett, David
, 44

Browne, Lord
, 71, 75–76, 135

Browne Review
, 7, 57, 75, 80, 92–93, 137

BTECs
, 86

Caveat emptor
, 107–112

‘Celebration of diversity’ stage
, 6, 130–132

Centralisation
, 27

versus autonomy
, 127–129, 145–147

Challenger providers
, 96

Chief Executive Officers
, 29

Choice, as new frontier
, 81–85

Clarke, Charles
, 59

Code of Governance
, 104

Collusion
, 114

Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals (CVCP)
, 28, 32, 46

Communication
, 21

Compelling value
, 108

Competition
, 71–76

choice-driven
, 82

Competition and Markets Authority
, 103–104

Competitive differentiation
, 10–11, 58, 92–94, 111, 137–141

Conservative and Liberal Democrat Coalition Government
, 73, 138

Conservative Party
, 25, 27, 28, 30, 33, 35, 38, 130, 150, 159–160

Consumer choice
, 80

Consumer protection
, 112

Consumer recompense
, 112

Continuing expansion
, 41

Continuing provision of course, guarantee of
, 111–112

Course closure
, 110–111

Credit Accumulation and Transfer (CAT) system
, 39, 111, 130

Critical discourse analysis (CDA)
, 21–22

Croham Report
, 29, 30, 51, 77, 128

Crosland, Anthony
, 34

Dearing, Sir Ron
, 38, 39, 42, 45–47, 49

Dearing Committee
, 39–40, 44

Dearing Report
, 46, 54

Dearing Review
, 7, 45, 130–132

Degree awarding powers (DAP)
, 79, 83–84, 103, 105–107, 133, 142, 164

Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
, 29, 89, 108, 161

Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS)
, 71, 75, 89, 91, 122, 140

Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE)
, 88, 89, 134, 162

Destination of Leavers survey
, 74

Differentiation
, 71–76, 90–91, 132–137

without competition
, 68–70

competitive
, 10–11, 58, 92–94, 111, 137–141

horizontal
, 70

vertical
, 70

market-incentivised
, 77–81

neoliberal
, 12–23

Diversity
, 11, 38–43, 60, 77, 90–91, 113

into 2000s
, 47–51

‘Diversity as good’ stage
, 25, 152–154

‘Diversity to differentiation’ stage
, 57–94, 132–137

2003 White Paper
, 58–59

choice, as new frontier
, 181–185

differentiation without compensation
, 68–70

Higher Education Act of 2004
, 58–59, 68–70

market-incentivised differentiation
, 77–81

student number controls
, 77–81

student number controls, strange death of
, 85–89

variable tuition fees
, 59–68

Dual pricing
, 67

Dynamism
, 119

Economic crisis of 2008
, 73, 137, 162

Educational attainment
, 14

Education Reform Act of 1988 (ERA)
, 32–33, 51, 52–53, 128, 129

Education Reform Bill 1987
, 128

Efficiency
, 43–45

in public services
, 147, 148

‘Efficiency and accountability’ stage
, 6, 10, 17–18, 25, 27–28, 52–55, 127–131, 134, 144

business case for
, 28–34

European Year of Lifelong Learning
, 44

Fair access
, 139

Fair Admissions to Higher Education: Recommendations for Good Practice
, 69

Fee cap
, 104

Financial competence
, 29

Financial sustainability, management and governance (FSMG)
, 103

Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ)
, 103

Fryer, Bob
, 44

Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice
, 109

Funding mode
, 147, 149

Further and Higher Education Act of 1992 (F&HE)
, 26, 35–37, 51, 53, 127, 129, 146, 161

Further education colleges (FECs)
, 6, 8

Further Education Funding Council
, 44

Future of Higher Education, The
, 57, 77

German Excellence Initiative
, 3

Government incentives
, 14

Graduate Contribution Scheme
, 65

Graduate outcomes
, 89

Graduate premium
, 116, 134, 144

Green Paper
, 3, 22, 97–103, 112–118

2015 Green Paper
, 143

Opening the Sector to New Providers
, 102–103

Teaching Excellence Framework, The
, 99–100

Guardian, The
, 70

HEFCW
, 96

Hierarchical system
, 70

Higher Ambitions: the future of Universities in a knowledge economy
, 57, 71–72, 77, 135

Higher Education Academy (HEA)
, 85, 86–87

Higher Education Act of 2004
, 7, 13, 46, 58–59, 67, 89, 90–91, 136, 146

limitations of
, 68–70

Higher Education and Research Act of 2017 (HERA)
, 1, 6, 12, 19, 20, 39, 42, 64, 83, 95–123, 141, 159, 163

Higher Education – A New Framework
, 35–36

Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)
, 36–37, 47–51, 55, 61, 63, 72, 84, 96, 104, 117, 130, 161

mission statement
, 47

student number control analysis
, 86

Higher education institutions (HEIs)
, 7, 8, 66, 79, 96, 107, 129, 134–136, 146, 147, 151

Higher Education in the Learning Society
, 38

Higher Education: Meeting the Challenge
, 30

Higher Education Policy Institute
, 104

Higher education providers (HEPs)
, 96, 103, 106, 110, 111, 118, 120, 141, 142, 144, 145

Higher Education Quality Agency
, 39

Higher Education Quality Commission (HEQC)
, 111

Higher-status institutions
, 8

HM Revenue and Customs data
, 108

HM Treasury
, 9, 85, 89, 94, 95, 140

Horizontal differentiation
, 70

House of Lords
, 32

Human capital
, 6, 10, 19, 27, 31, 41, 45, 51, 72, 131, 135, 151

maximisation
, 43–45

Income, new sources of
, 150–151

Income-contingent repayment system
, 60

Incumbency
, 113

Individual return on investment
, 147, 148

Inflexibility
, 113

Informed choice about alternatives
, 98

Innovation
, 119

Institutional autonomy
, 34, 37, 50, 111, 119, 120

Institutional failure, risk of
, 95–96

regulatory reform
, 102–107

Jarrett Committee
, 28–34, 51, 127, 128

Johnson, Jo
, 117

Kennedy Report
, 44

Key Information Sets
, 15, 88, 138

Knowledge economy
, 6

Labour Force Survey
, 44

Labour Party
, 35, 38–44, 54, 58, 60, 71, 73, 80, 130–134, 136, 154, 156, 160

tuition fees and
, 45–47

League table rankings
, 57, 87, 98

Learning society
, 41, 43–45

Learning Works
, 44

Level playing field
, 9

Lifelong learning
, 43, 131

Lifelong Learning Network
, 75, 139

Local Education Authorities
, 35

Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) data
, 15, 108, 109, 118, 142, 143

Long-term demand
, 41

Mandelson, Lord
, 72–75

Market-incentivised differentiation
, 77–81

Marketisation

neoliberal
, 4, 12–16

discourse, cumulative effect of
, 5

see also individual entries

Market positionality
, 21, 42, 74, 134

Market reforms
, 25–55

Market segmentation
, 89

Market share
, 16

May, Theresa
, 160

McGettigan, Andrew
, 108–109

Means-tested maintenance grants
, 60

Micro-management
, 78

Missing 3000, The
, 8

Mission groups
, 3, 4, 6, 42, 131, 161

Mode of delivery
, 13

Mumbai Declaration on Lifelong Learning
, 44

NATFHE
, 46

National Advisory Group for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning
, 44

National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (NCIHE)
, 38

National Student Survey (NSS)
, 15, 88, 89, 117, 134, 162

National Union of Students
, 38–39, 58

Neoliberal differentiation
, 12–23

Neoliberalism
, 2, 12, 32, 126, 162, 163

in English HE context, definition of
, 16–20

Neoliberal marketisation
, 4, 12–16

New Public Management
, 6, 51, 127, 130, 147, 150

New Public Management Theory
, 27

Non-repayment
, 163

Office for Fair Access (OFFA)
, 21, 22, 60, 67, 69, 75, 96, 134, 139

Office for Students (OfS)
, 1–2, 96, 104, 117–119, 142, 164

Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA)
, 103, 104, 117

OFSTED ratings
, 96

OPEC crisis
, 25

Opening the Sector to New Providers
, 102–103

Opening up the market
, 157–158

Ownership
, 21

Part-time learning
, 13

Peer-review system
, 129

Pluralism
, 39–40

Policy discourse analysis (PDA)
, 3, 4, 12

approaches to
, 20–23

Policy shift
, 105, 113

Polytechnic and Colleges Funding Council (PCFC)
, 32, 33, 36

Polytechnic Founding Council
, 128

Polytechnics
, 26, 27, 129

establishment of
, 34–35

Price competition
, 144

Price differential
, 67

Price indicator
, 71

Privatisation
, 130

Producer capture
, 113–114

Public expenditure
, 76, 110

Public sector
, 31

Quality
, 154–155, 159

Quality assurance (QA)
, 103

Quality Assurance Agency (QAA)
, 39, 96, 103, 130, 132, 142

Quality of teaching
, 99, 144

Rationalisation of policies
, 2

Reduction in student number
, 81

Regional Development Agencies
, 73, 136

Registered providers
, 103

Regulatory reform of institutional failure
, 102–107

Regulatory regime
, 96

Repayment
, 65–66, 76, 138

Reputational risk
, 11

Research Excellence Framework (REF)
, 19

Residual household incomes (RHI)
, 46

Resource Accounting Budget
, 89

Responsibilisation
, 21

Retrospection
, 18

Return on investment
, 89, 134, 139, 143–144, 147, 148

‘Risk and exit’ stage
, 95–123, 141–145

applicants and students
, 97–102

caveat emptor
, 107–112

discourse development
, 112–117

institutional failure
, 95–96, 102–107

Risk-based quality system
, 117–120

Risk-based regulatory system
, 20, 154

Robbins Report
, 27, 34, 37, 41, 159

Russell Group
, 6, 42, 45, 62, 86, 132, 136, 139, 161

Schwartz Review
, 69

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
, 75, 87, 136

Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act of 2015
, 108

Social class deprivation
, 14

Social justice
, 19, 136

Social mobility
, 14, 19, 80

Social Mobility Commission (SMC)
, 57

State

expenditure, discontinuation of
, 75

role in discourse development
, 115

role in system-shaping
, 72

Student number control (SNC)
, 8, 9, 14, 84, 138, 140

and market-incentivised differentiation
, 77–81

regime
, 78–79, 88, 89, 101

strange death of
, 85–89

Students

risks
, 97–102

satisfaction
, 89

Students at the Heart of the System
, 7, 58, 66, 73, 76, 77–78, 88, 99

Subject discipline
, 13

Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice
, 112–113

Supply and demand
, 89

Sutton Trust
, 8

Swinnerton-Dyer, Sir Peter
, 31

System delivery
, 34–35

Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF)
, 9–10, 11, 15, 19, 83, 103, 104, 113, 117, 119, 142–144, 163

ratings
, 20, 96

submissions
, 21, 22

Teaching Excellence Framework, The
, 99–100

Teaching quality
, 63

Tier 4 licence
, 103

Times Higher Education
, 11

Times Higher Education Supplement
, 70

Transfer system
, 112

Tuition fees
, 2, 7, 11, 15, 16, 18, 38, 45–47, 75–76, 126, 134, 137, 155–156, 163

variable
, 59–68, 133, 162

UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES)
, 72

UK Research and Innovation
, 104

UNISTATS
, 73, 133, 135, 162

University and College Application System (UCAS)
, 8, 10, 14, 15, 67, 71, 82, 87, 117, 120, 137, 138, 143, 145, 154, 161

tariff differentiation
, 96

tariff distribution
, 76

tariff requirements
, 74

University Funding Council (UFC)
, 30, 36, 127, 128

University Governing Council
, 26

University Grants Committee (UGC)
, 28–30, 127

University of Sunderland
, 109

University title (UT)
, 79, 103, 105–107, 133, 142, 164

Utility maximization
, 115

Vertical differentiation
, 70

White Paper
, 3, 7, 8, 22, 25, 31, 79, 95, 97, 101, 112–118, 140

2003 White Paper
, 58–59, 69, 90–91, 133, 134, 136, 141, 144

2009 White Paper
, 91, 136

2011 White Paper
, 93, 108, 138, 144

2016 White Paper
, 142, 143

Future of Higher Education, The
, 57

Higher Education – A New Framework
, 35–36

Higher Education: Meeting the Challenge
, 30

Higher Ambitions: the future of Universities in a knowledge economy
, 57, 71–72, 77, 135

Students at the Heart of the System
, 7, 58, 66, 73, 76, 77–78, 88, 99

Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice
, 112–113

Widening participation (WP) policy
, 7, 14, 19, 37, 43, 46, 50, 60–62, 68, 87, 97, 101–102, 131, 134, 139, 143, 152–154

discontinuation of state expenditure
, 75

Willets, David
, 79

Work-based learning
, 13

World Competitiveness Report
, 44–45

World Conference on Lifelong Learning
, 44