Part 1: The economics of higher education * Private commodities and public goods: Markets and values in higher education Peter Scott, Institute of Education, London, UK * Paying the price for expansion: Why more means less for undergraduates in England Helen Carasso and William Locke, University of Oxford, UK and Institute of Education, London, UK * The Unwinding of English Higher Education Patrick Ainley, Greenwich University, UK * The impact of marketisation in England on Scottish higher education since devolution in 1999 Tony Bruce, HE Consultant, UK * British universities as a single entity - implications and solutions? Bernard Longden, Liverpool Hope University, UK Part 2: Students in a marketized environment * Contractualising the Student Experience through University Charters: Policy in Practice Joanna Williams, University of Kent, UK * Marketing and marketisation: what went wrong, and how we can put it right Rob Cuthbert, University of the West of England, UK * A Market in Learning: Tokenistic rituals or democratic education Rajani Naidoo and Geoff Whitty, University of Bath, UK. * Some implications for higher education conceived as a post-experience good Morgan White, University of Liverpool Hope, UK Part 3: Marketization steering policies * Regulating Risk in the Higher Education State: Policy Reform for English Universities and Colleges Roger King, University of Bath UK and University of Queensland, Australia * How the Home Office became a regulator of higher education in England: A critical note Geoffrey Alderman, University of Buckingham, UK * Evidence based policy or policy based evidence? Gareth Williams, Institute of Education, London, UK * The undervalued in higher education: Teachers and teaching in a research environment Paulo Botas, University of Bath, UK Part 4: Marketization and pedagogy * Engaging the international scholarly and policy community in active dialogue on the research teaching nexus Vaneeta D'Andrea, University of the Arts, London, UK * Reshaping practices and policies to enhance teaching and research linkages Mick Healey and Alan Jenkins, University of Gloucestershire, UK and Oxford Brookes University, UK * Shifting perspectives on research and teaching relationships Angela Brew, Macquarie University, Australia * Developing criticality in learning and teaching through pedagogical action research Lin Norton, Liverpool Hope University, UK Part 5: Universities futures beyond markets? * A critical reflection on leadership: the contribution of Professor Roger Brown to policy and practice in higher education Robin Middlehurst, Kingston University, UK * Academic Quality and Academic Responsibility: A Critical Reflection on Collegial Governance David Dill, University of North Carolina, USA * Making a difference: the roles of markets and the roles of quality assurance regimes John Brennan, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK *'Policy, what Policy? Considering the University in the Twenty-first Century'? Ronald Barnett, Institute of Education, London, UK