Faced with conflicting pressures of student diversity, retention and demands for change in a volatile international education marketing environment, universities have become more focused on enhancing student experience as a strategic response to achieving competitive advantage. Based on an exploratory qualitative study conducted in a UK…

Education in the 21st century is diverse not only in content and discipline but also in format and delivery. Today's students have access to a broad range of information, knowledge, ideas, and opinions well beyond their classroom. Never before have learners been able to interact so closely with instructors, mentors, subject-matter experts, and…

Since 2001, the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at The George Washington University (GW) has managed a cooperative education program with a network of nine respected universities in South America. This "governance and political management" program serves working professionals in the civil service, political party offices, advocacy…

Taking as his cue the House of Commons Select Committee for Innovation, Universities and Skills inquiry into "students and universities," the author begins by addressing four "pathologies" in the current discussion of the student experience: nostalgia and selective memory; condescension and disappointment; moral panic and pulling up the ladder;…

This article uses data from a series of reports by the Longer Term Strategy Group of Universities UK to outline key features of the developing market for higher education in the UK. The resulting empirical lessons about the behaviour of students and institutions are tested against the political drive for a freer domestic "market" for student…

Numerous economic factors favor greater involvement of higher education in international education. Attention should focus on infusion of international content into undergraduate curriculum, recruitment of international students, language training, study abroad, internships/work study, and certificate programs. The responsiveness of continuing…

Author suggests that in increasingly difficult times for higher education, innovators need to take care in formulating problems, in proposing ways of tackling them and in costing these proposals. (Editor)

An analysis of the largely unprofessional ways in which English polytechnics recruit staff. (Editor)

Reports on the results of research on the way the vocational colleges see themselves contributing to the development of higher education in the Netherlands. (Editor)

Discusses the guidelines on the Diploma of Higher Education and the Bachelor of Education prepared by the transbinary working party, the policy of student grants, and polytechnic status. (Editor)

Discusses how the universities' capacity for change is limited by security of tenure. (Editor)

Offers a different strategy for the recruitment of teachers. (Editor/PG)

Discusses education in the European Economic Community, the housing of students, status in the polytechnics and the employment of graduates in Great Britain. (Editor/PG)

Argues that if private demand is to be the basis of university provision, then a reformed admissions process is essential to planning. (Editor)