“From Accrington Stanley to academia?” – Professor Stella Jones-Devitt and Dr Catherine Samiei

The authors construct a convincing argument which challenges a number of key assumptions in terms of markets, which they argue should be examined critically by all stakeholders.

– Professor Jane Hemsley-Brown, University of Surrey

In this chapter, Professor Stella Jones-Devitt and Dr Catherine Samiei consider the outcomes and unintended consequences of imposing explicit and implicit marketisation on higher education, which potentially undermine the fundamental values of higher education itself.

The chapter provides a rich source of counter-arguments to the marketisation of higher education in terms of current practice and examines the roles of the state, the privileging of individualism and escalating regulation.

– Professor Jane Hemsley-Brown, University of Surrey

This chapter can be read in The Marketisation of Higher Education and the Student as Consumer, which is held in York St John’s Library.