Equality and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Diversity and Differentiation, Equity and Equality in a Marketised Higher Education System

   • Marion Bowl

   Pages 1-19

3. International Policies for Higher Education and Their National Variants: Reconciling Equality and Marketisation in National Policy Texts

   • Marion Bowl

   Pages 21-50

4. English Higher Education: Widening Participation and the Historical Context for System Differentiation

   • Colin McCaig

   Pages 51-72

5. System Differentiation in England: The Imposition of Supply and Demand

   • Colin McCaig

   Pages 73-93

6. Can ‘Alternative Providers’ Really Improve Equality of Opportunity for Students Entering Higher Education?

   • G. R. Evans

   Pages 95-118

7. Institutional Diversification and Student Diversity in English Higher Education

   • Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Marion Bowl

   Pages 119-147

8. Marketisation, Institutional Stratification and Differentiated Pedagogic Approaches

   • Jacqueline Stevenson, Pauline Whelan, Penny Jane Burke

   Pages 149-169

9. Measurement Imperatives and Their Impact: Academic Staff Narratives on Riding the Metric Tide

   • Carol Taylor, Jean Harris-Evans, Iain Garner, Damien Fitzgerald, Manuel Madriaga

   Pages 171-194

10. Conceptualising Equality, Equity and Differentiation in Marketised Higher Education: Fractures and Fault Lines in the Neoliberal Imaginary

    • Colin McCaig, Marion Bowl, Jonathan Hughes

    Pages 195-210

11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-219

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This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in higher education and equality in England, the contributors and editors expose the contradictions arising from the tension between aims for increased equality and an increasingly marketised higher education. As the authors seek to reveal both the intended and unintended consequences of the intensified marketisation of the sector, they critically examine the implications of these changes. In doing so, they reveal the ways in which institutional policy and discourse are involved in masking the contradictions between an educational marketplace and education as a vehicle for advancing equality and social justice. This pioneering volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of higher education in England, education policy and the marketisation of higher education, as well as policy makers and practitioners.

• marketisation of higher education
• system differentiation
• institutional stratification
• student experience
• diversity
• neoliberalism in education
• UK higher education

• University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

  Marion Bowl

• Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Colin McCaig

• The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  Jonathan Hughes

Marion Bowl is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Birmingham, UK.



Colin McCaig is Reader in Higher Education Policy at the Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.




Jonathan Hughes was Lecturer in the Centre of Inclusion and Collaborative Partnerships at the Open University, UK, and a Senior Fellow in the Higher Education Academy, UK.

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