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In total, the government argued that 250,000 students from low, modest, and middle incomes would gain from the new proposals once fully implemented (DIUS, 2007c). The rhetoric from the DIUS in 2007 seemed poised to continue to attempt to address questions about how to support students, representing a shift in emphasis from the debates surrounding institutional funding that were prominent in the White Paper (2003) and the subsequent Higher Education Bill (2004). Issues related to the tension between expansion and participation such as the ‘dumbing-down’ of HE (including entry standards, “Mickey Mouse” courses, vocationalization, grade inflation and so on)15 (Watson, 2006), and also ‘fairer’ admissions processes, employer support of HE, and the role of HE and the public interest were all topics that required careful consideration in this political era.
A NEW TWIST TO THE ACADEMIC MARKET: STUDENTS AS CONSUMERS In 2009, the Browne Review was commissioned, focusing on the effectiveness of the system in terms of widening participation and affordability to students and the taxpayer. 18 The Great Recession has enabled those who are committed to the marketization of public goods, such as education, to introduce policies under the guise of cost cutting public expenditure. This is particularly the case in England where a new Towards a Corporate Culture in Higher Education 29 experiment in the funding of higher education has been launched.
The revolution is dependent upon academia developing distinct collaborations and networks. Slaughter and Rhoades (2004) present these collaborations and networks as: . . new circuits of knowledge, interstitial organisational emergence, networks that intermediate between public and private sector, extended managerial capacity—that link institutions as well as faculty, administrators, academic professionals and students to the new economy. New investment, marketing and consumption behaviours on the part of the university community also link them to the new economy.