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The Student Experience

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Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education

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Contemporary higher education in Britain, America, and Australia is synonymous with large numbers of students. Each of these countries now has a mass system of higher education. In America over 6,000 universities and colleges enrolled more than 20 million students in 2014, an increase of 30 percent from 2000. Some 70 percent of US high school students go on to higher education, the highest level of matriculation in the world. In Australia around 1.1 million domestic students were enrolled in higher education in 2014 along with 350,000 international students. In the United Kingdom in 2015 there were some 2.23 million university students, including 1.5 million studying for their first degree. The United States has a higher proportion of its population in university than the United Kingdom, which has the smallest proportion, but both are now mass university systems.

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Watts, R. (2017). The Student Experience. In: Public Universities, Managerialism and the Value of Higher Education. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53599-3_8

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