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Bowl, Marion; Hughes, Jonathan – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
This paper explores how English universities operating in a "quasi-market" are managing the tension between two policy expectations: the first that they should encourage social mobility by widening the social base of their student population; the second that they should compete with other universities to attract students and thereby…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Policy, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Cowen, Robert – Comparative Education, 2014
Comparative education as a field of study in universities (and "comparative education" as practised by nineteenth-century administrators of education in Canada, England, France and the USA) has always addressed the theme of "transfer": that is, the movement of educational ideas, principles and practices, and institutions and…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Educational Policy, Reputation