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Since the 1980s Higher Education in the UK has become increasingly commercialised. In response to governmental pressures universities are becoming more corporate, business-like and enterprising to take advantage the opportunities presented by the so-called global knowledge and information societies (Blair, 2000; Blunkett, 2000; DfEE, 1998, Nunn, 2002, Mulderrig, 2002, Robertson, 2002, Fryer, 1997; National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, 1997).
In concrete terms this has led to the emergence of new managerial strategies, an increase in entrepreneurial activity, the rapid development of accounting systems of quality control, a stress on the relationships between universities and private industry, the advent of virtual and corporate universities, the construction of the student as consumer through fee-paying programmes; and all of this in the context of a global marketplace where higher education provision can be bought and sold (Smith, Donnelly and Parker, 2004; Levidow, 2002; Nunn, 2002; Nelson and Watt, 2004).
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