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Mass to Market Higher Education Systems: New Transition or False Dawn?

1. Centre for Higher Education Studies. Mass to Market Higher Education Systems: New Transition or False Dawn?. Peter Scott Professor of Higher Education Studies p.scott@ioe.ac.uk.

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Mass to Market Higher Education Systems: New Transition or False Dawn?

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  2. Centre for Higher Education Studies Mass to Market Higher Education Systems:New Transition or False Dawn? • Peter Scott • Professor of Higher Education Studies • p.scott@ioe.ac.uk

  3. Mass higher education systems were developed in the context of the ‘welfare state’ / ‘social market. But since the 1980s new socio-economic (and ideological) conditions have emerged – and HE systems have struggled to adapt Higher education systems seem to be evolved towards the ‘market’ – student fees, institutional competition, the global knowledge economy and new organisational cultures (‘managerialism’). But what kind of ‘market’? My argument – in brief 3

  4. Mass higher education – and its discontents The ‘neo-liberal turn’ Evolution of mass higher education systems Drivers of massification – and marketisation Conclusions and reflections Plan of presentation 4

  5. Failure (slowness?) to deliver equal opportunities ‘Crisis’ of affordability Dumbing-down: academic quality at risk? Mass higher education – and its discontents 5

  6. The 'neo-liberal 'turn' • 1. Welfare State >>> market state • 2. Globalisation (& commodification?) • 3. The communications revolution / mediatisation of politics & culture 6

  7. Drift towards ‘cost-sharing’, i.e. (higher) student fees Transformation of organisational cultures: Autonomy – and managerialism The ‘entrepreneurial university’ National systems >>> ‘market’ networks Changing student cultures – and the new graduate class Evolution of mass HE systems 7

  8. Final stages in the educationa revolution (elementary >> secondary >> higher) Opening-up traditional professions – servicing new professions (‘public sector’) The ‘spirit of the age’ – social solidarity, modernisation and the Cold War Drivers of mass higher education 8

  9. The knowledge economy – and more intense (& global) competition Narratives of (scientific) production – and (student) consumption The market state, public austerity and alternative funding Drivers of ‘market’ higher education 9

  10. The impact of the ‘external’: HE in its socio-economic politico-cultural setting Continuities between mass and ‘market’ systems Rise of the para-State / out-sourcing and privatisation Conclusions & reflections 10

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