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In what ways have the principles of the market been applied to Higher Education in recent decades?
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In what ways have the principles of the market been applied to Higher Education in recent decades? In today's society, there are more students attending university than ever before. This is perhaps thanks to the Robbins Report in 1963 which introduced an 'education for all' policy. In order to shoulder such expansion more universities have had to be created, which was seen particularly through the abolition of the binary divide. This was added to by the funding cuts in the 1980s, which indubitably forced institutions to compete between one another, unwittingly introducing the need for market principles. This suggests that in many ways the introduction of market principles was not a conscious decision. External factors such as funding changes by the relevant authorities and changes in the way degree programmes are structured have almost thrust this business-minded approach upon Higher Education. Indeed, in the increasingly money orientated society in which we...
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