Higher Education in the UK and the US

Sarah Pickard is Senior Lecturer in British Politics and Society at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris. Her research area is contemporary Youth Studies focussing on the interaction between youth policy and youth politics, especially higher education. She has published several journal articles and book chapters on British youth and British Studies.

• Acknowledgements Charts, Figures, Tables and Illustrations Note on Contributors IntroductionPART I - THE ECONOMICS AND MARKETISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION 1. Creating the Enterprising Student: The Moral Projects of Neoliberalism and Higher Education Reform in the UK and the USSTEVEN WARD 2. Education Markets in English and American UniversitiesJOHN HALSEY and KENNETH O’BRIEN3. Higher Education in the United Kingdom under Tony Blair: An American Inspired Economic IssueMAGALI JULIAN 4. The English Experiment in Market-based Higher Education: Ideology and Reality Disconnected BAHRAM BEKHRADNIA PART II - ACCESS AND ADMISSION TO HIGHER EDUCATION5. Are Admissions Models for Undergraduate Study Converging among Highly Selective Universities in the England and the US?ANNA MOUNTFORD-ZIMDARS6. Widening Participation in English Universities: Accessing Social Justice?SARAH PICKARD7. Access and the Rise of Accountability in the Governance of Public Universities in the USCHRISTINE SOULASPART III - THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION8. The Quality of the Student’s Learning Experience: A Strategic Dimension of British and American Higher Education Systems in the Early 21st CenturyMARIE-AGNÈS DÉTOURBE9. The Decline in Study Time in British and American Universities: Unravelling the Paradox in Two Knowledge EconomiesJAMES CÔTÉ10. The Student Experience in the UK and US: Two Converging Pictures of Decline?CHRIS RUST11. British Students in the Winter Protests: Still a New Social Movement?CRISTIANA OLCESE AND CLARE SAUNDERS Index