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The Changing Nature of the University Sector

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This chapter sets out some of the histories, similarities and differences in university sectors across Anglophone nations, focusing in particular on the United Kingdom (UK), the United States (US) and Australia. Higher education within these nation states is diverse, and the substantial differences between them are interesting in and of themselves. There are also a number of common themes, although these may manifest differently and for different reasons. However, the relationships between external and internal structural and policy factors that are the subject of this chapter, especially the near-universal new public management or managerialism, also serve as drivers and shapers of internal governance processes, including for academic governance. This chapter therefore sets the context for the remainder of the book.

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