Diversity and excellence in higher education seem to be conflicting concepts. Nevertheless, they are dynamic and closely intertwined - indeed they may even require each other. The book brings together insights from ten different countries to analyse these multi-facetted phenomena and discuss how they may be reconciled. To set the overall context, it critically addresses markets and managerialism, whilst foregrounding the dangers of certain behaviour that European countries are currently, though often unwisely, copying from the U.S.

In a mass higher education system, the social basis of the...

Diversity and excellence in higher education seem to be conflicting concepts. Nevertheless, they are dynamic and closely intertwined - indeed they may even require each other. The book brings together insights from ten different countries to analyse these multi-facetted phenomena and discuss how they may be reconciled. To set the overall context, it critically addresses markets and managerialism, whilst foregrounding the dangers of certain behaviour that European countries are currently, though often unwisely, copying from the U.S.

In a mass higher education system, the social basis of the...