This book examines the developments of the UK Higher Education system from a time of donnish
dominion progressive decline and the increasing role of the market via the introduction of
tuition fees. It offers a protracted empirical analysis of the seven new English universities
of the 1960s: the Universities of East Anglia Essex Kent Lancaster Sussex Warwick and
York. It explores the creation of these universities and investigates how they each responded
to a number of centrally-imposed initiatives for change in UK higher education that have
emerged since their foundation. It discusses changes in system governance and how the Higher
Education policies it generated have impacted upon a particular segment of the English
university model. Divided into three parts the book first deals with such topics as the
control the University Grants' Committee exercised in its heyday and how they initiated the
launch of new universities. It then examines policy initiatives on government cuts on grants
research assessment exercises quality assurance procedures and student tuition fees. The last
part takes a broader approach to change by studying the significance and demise of Mission
Groups a changing system of Higher Education and more general changes regarding the state the
market and governance.
