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Smith, Erica – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
This paper examines responses to the trend for increasing participation in tertiary education, linking developments in higher education with those in apprenticeship systems, in Australia and the United Kingdom. In both sectors, expansion proceeded for several decades, but was robustly criticised in both countries. The expansion of access to these…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Comparative Education
Duke, Chris – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
The UK higher education community is well served for news and policy discourse by the weekly "Times Higher Education" ("THE"). "THE" also provides a window into the conduct of this community. Concern about the contribution of research to the wider society beyond academe has risen along with its scale and cost. Views…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Higher Education, College Role, Role of Education
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Garrett, Richard – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2004
In February 2000, with much fanfare, the British government announced funding of 62 million British Pounds ($113 million) for a national, commercial e-university called United Kingdom e-University (UKeU). The initiative was touted as an innovative response to the perceived opportunities and threats of online higher education--in the form of U.S.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Student Recruitment, Electronic Learning