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1. Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education

   By Roger Brown, Helen Carasso

   Series: Research into Higher Education

   The marketisation of higher education is a growing worldwide trend. Increasingly, market steering is replacing or supplementing government steering. Tuition fees are being introduced or increased, usually at the expense of state grants to institutions. Grants for student support are being replaced...

   To Be Published February 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Quality Assurance in Higher Education

   The UK Experience Since 1992

   By Roger Brown, Roger Brown

   Along with funding, quality assurance has become one of the major issues in higher education today. This text provides an analytical account of the changes to quality assurance of UK universities and colleges from 1992 to 2003. It documents the shift from institutional self-regulation to increased...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Higher Education and the Market

   Edited by Roger Brown

   The introduction of market forces into higher education is the most crucial issue facing universities and colleges today. As the role of universities in the knowledge society becomes ever more apparent, and as public funding reaches its limit, marketisation has become an issue of critical...

   Published July 26th 2010 by Routledge
4. Handbook of Polymer Testing

   Physical Methods

   Edited by Roger Brown

   Series: Plastics Engineering

   The Handbook of Polymer Testing: Physical Methods provides virtually currently used techniques for measuring and testing the physical properties of polymers. A concise but detailed technical guide to the physical testing methods of synthetic polymers in plastics, rubbers, cellular materials,...

   Published January 20th 1999 by CRC Press