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The politics of governance in higher education is dominated by a discourse of quality assurance which assumes the external regulation of academic activity to be the natural state of affairs. This article analyses the ideological origins of that discourse and its resonance with more general trends in the public management of welfare, the nature of the opposition from traditional university values, the stages in the translation of ideological advantage into specific forms of regulation, and the consequent shifts in the balance of power between the major players in higher education. Underlying this analysis is a framework which views the governance of higher education as an arena in which there is a continuing struggle for the control of high status knowledge through the functions of standard setting, evaluation and intervention.

The politics of governance in higher education is dominated by a discourse of quality assurance that assumes the external regulation of academic activity to be the natural state of affairs. This article analyzes the ideological origins of that discourse & its resonance with more general trends in the public management of welfare, the nature of the opposition from traditional university values, the stages in the translation of ideological advantage into specific forms of regulation, & the consequent shifts in the balance of power between the major players in higher education. Underlying this analysis is a framework that views the governance of higher education as an arena in which there is a continuing struggle for the control of high-status knowledge through the functions of standard setting, evaluation, & intervention. 1 Figure. Adapted from the source document.

Since 1997 there have been two concerted attempts to expand the number of medical school students in England: by increasing the size of existing medical schools, and by creating new medical schools. These initiatives have been a direct result of government policy, although policy implementation was delegated to the state apparatus. They also led to a struggle between higher education interests and the General Medical Council for knowledge control. The aim of this article is to offer an analytical framework for this conflict, and to draw attention to consequent shifts in university governance and the epistemological framing of higher education.

Contents PageChapter One: The Funding of Higher Education -- The Oscillating Balance between the Public and Private Financing of the UniversityChapter Two: Distance Learning and the Rise of the MOOCs: The more Things Change -- the more they Stay the SameChapter Three: The Ecology of State Higher-Education Policymaking in the U.S.Chapter Four: The Australian Hybrid: Public and Private Higher Education FundingChapter Five: The United Kingdom Divided: Contested Income-Contingent Student LoansChapter Six: The Robust Privateness and Publicness of Higher Education: Expansion through Privatization in PolandChapter Seven: Germany: Resistance to Fee-PayingChapter Eight: Is Higher Education in Latin America a Public Good? Issues of Funding, Expansion, Stratification and EquityChapter Nine: Higher Education Development in China: Fast Growth and Governmental Policy since the Chinese Economic Reform of 1978Chapter Ten: Whither the Japanese System of Higher Education? Higher Education as a Public and Private Good – Differentiation and RealignmentChapter Eleven: How Inexorable is the Shift from the Public to the Private Funding of Higher Education?.