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Down the US route Summary Due to the rapid expansion of the British national system, higher education institutions were led to expand cheaply. The Guardian highlights changes in the government policy, which are increasing the number of students entering higher education. Research expenses with high fixed costs are outpacing inflation and worsening the financial situation. Government decisions to build new and upgrade existing universities, has enabled the academic community to prosper. The UK higher education system has expanded in two phases; Firstly Robbins (1960) encouraged low-cost polytechnics with a "mission to teach not to carry out research" [1]. Secondly in 1992 it was hoped that the abolition of the binary line separating polytechnics and universities, would produce funds to support the British research mission, it was however, unsuccessful. Differential funding is still in place and is reinforced by a large and costly structure of audit, assessment and exercise. This has led many universities...

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