Further reading
A curated route into the subject.
Not a duplicate bibliography: a selective guide explaining why each source is useful and where it fits into the argument.
From the manuscript
Further reading by chapter
59 annotated recommendations drawn directly from the book’s evidence files.
How British Universities Became Regulated Providers
3 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →How a University Runs Out of Road
1 further-reading item, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →The Cross-Subsidy Sleight of Hand
4 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →When Costs Rise but Income Cannot
1 further-reading item, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →How Is It A Market If The Price Can’t Change?
1 further-reading item, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Fuelling The Prestige Furnace
2 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Retail Rules for Civic Infrastructure
1 further-reading item, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →The Export That Counts as a Problem
3 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →What Does a Degree Prove Now?
4 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Why Universities Cannot Just Share
3 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Why Universities Cannot Shrink Meekly
1 further-reading item, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Four Ways to Become Fragile
2 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Why Universities Cannot Die Quietly
4 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →The Choices Government Kept Postponing
3 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →What Other Systems Stabilise
3 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →What Universities Can Do Now
7 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →What the Sector Must Do Together
9 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →What Government Must Change
7 further-reading items, alongside the chapter’s direct sources.
Read the chapter list →Curated themes
Explore across chapters
These developing thematic guides connect material that appears in different parts of the book.
Funding and cross-subsidy
Essential sources for understanding how teaching, research and other activities support one another.
Browse the reading →Regulation, markets and institutional autonomy
Reading on the designed market in higher education and the constraints within which universities act.
Browse the reading →Failure, restructuring and market exit
Reading on financial distress, institutional recovery, mergers and closure.
Browse the reading →Repair and reform
What other systems stabilise, what institutions can change now, and what only government can change.
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