Higher Education in Scotland and the UK: Diverging or Converging Systems?

Sheila Riddell; Elisabet Weedon; Sarah Minty

doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474404587.001.0001

Higher Education in Scotland and the UK: Diverging or Converging Systems?

Sheila Riddell (Editor), Elisabet Weedon (Editor), Sarah Minty (Editor)

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This book focuses on the challenges and opportunities faced by Scottish higher education post-referendum 2014. It draws on findings from a project on higher education within the ESRC’s Future of the UK and Scotland Programme, making an important and original contribution to the understanding of higher education policy in Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Central themes explored in different chapters include: the influence of marketisation and internationalisation on Scottish and UK higher education systems; university governance, devolution and the rescaling of the European state; the impact of widening access policies on territorial and social justice; young people’s views of higher education and the impact of the extended franchise; cross-border student flows and migration; research funding, knowledge economies and constitutional change.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Edinburgh
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages	184
ISBN (Electronic)	9781474404594
ISBN (Print)	9781474404587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474404587.001.0001
Publication status	Published - 12 Nov 2015

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

REF2021
higher education
independence
Scotland

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https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-higher-education-in-scotland-and-the-uk.html

2 Finished

Improving young people’s knowledge of student finance in Scotland
Minty, S.
1/10/14 → 31/10/15
Project: University Awarded Project Funding
Higher Education in Scotland, the Devolution Settlement and the Referendum on Independence
Raffe, D., Croxford, L., Minty, S., Riddell, S., Weedon, E., Weedon, E., Whittaker, S. & Riddell, S.
ESRC
1/03/13 → 31/07/14
Project: Research

6 Chapter
2 Other contribution
1 Commissioned report

CREID Briefing 33: Access to higher education in Scotland
Blackburn, L., Kadar-Satat, G., Riddell, S. & Weedon, E., Jul 2016, 4 p. Edinburgh : Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID), University of Edinburgh.
Research output: Other contribution
Scottish higher education and devolution
Riddell, S., 2016, Higher Education in Scotland and the UK: Diverging or Converging Systems? . Riddell, S., Weedon, E. & Minty, S. (eds.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 1-18
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Young people’s attitudes towards student debt in Scotland and England
Minty, S., Dec 2015, Higher Education in Scotland and the UK: Diverging or Converging Systems?. Edinburgh University Press, p. 56-70
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Blackburn cited by Ferret Fact Service in response to MP Cherry's claim that Scottish students leave universities without a huge debt
Lucy Hunter Blackburn
22/02/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
Follow-on press coverage on Professor Sheila Riddell's remark in her new book on the failure of free university in breaking social inequalities
Sheila Riddell
3/12/15
3 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Professor Sheila Riddell concludes in her new book that free university fails to break social inequalities
Sheila Riddell
2/12/15
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research

5 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
3 Providing oral or written evidence for non-academic board, committee, working group or advisory panel
1 Participation in conference
1 Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
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- 1 Hosting of external visitor (non-academic)

Peter Scott
Sheila Riddell (Host)
14 Feb 2017
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting of external visitor (non-academic)
Higher Education and Social Class: Scotland in Comparative Perspective
Sheila Riddell (Organiser)
31 May 2016
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Conceptions of social justice and inter-sectionality in Scottish and Swedish education
Elisabet Weedon (Speaker)
7 Dec 2015
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Sheila Riddell
Person: Academic: Research Active

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