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Brown, Roger – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2018
After climate change, rising economic inequality is the greatest challenge facing the advanced Western societies. Higher education has traditionally been seen as a means to greater equality through its role in promoting social mobility. But with increased marketisation higher education now not only reflects the forces making for greater inequality…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Social Mobility, Social Justice
Evidence-Based Policy or Policy-Based Evidence? Higher Education Policies and Policymaking 1987-2012
Brown, Roger – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2013
The article discusses higher education policies and policy making during the period of the author's direct involvement between the mid-80s and the present. The author points to an increasingly ideological form of policy making which has emphasised the economic role of higher education and created a higher education "market". As the scope…
Descriptors: Evidence, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Policy Formation
Brown, Roger – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2012
As the author's contribution to a series marking the Golden Jubilee of the Association of University Administrators, he reflects on changes in quality assurance over the past twenty years and speculates on what the future may hold for quality as the association moves into a new and very different competitive regime. He begins by discussing the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
Brown, Roger – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2011
There has been a resurgence of interest in good practice in university governance. This may be due to a number of high profile vice-chancellor (and governor) departures, and especially the crisis at London Metropolitan University, where the Vice-Chancellor resigned in March 2009 following overclaimed public funding as a result of inaccurately…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Leadership Styles
Brown, Roger – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2007
Future historians may well find as much continuity as change in government policies towards higher education between the mid-1980s and the mid-2000s. One exception, however, is likely to be widening participation (WP), which only appeared on the policy agenda after 1997. Moreover, this commitment has been sustained. In this brief survey, the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Historians, Educational Policy, Role of Education
Brown, Roger – Perspectives London policy and practice in higher education, 2004
This document is a follow-up to a previous article about the future prospects for higher education in the light of the then recently published White Paper. The question was asked at to whether and how far the government would succeed in its avowed intention of creating a more diverse higher education system. This document focuses on the likely…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Tuition