Publisher's Synopsis
We are currently mid-way through a twenty-year revolution that is fundamentally reshaping UK higher education. Successive governments have used the full panoply of levers to achieve this radical reform ? legislation, funding to encourage expansion and change, regulation and reviews like those chaired by Lord Dearing and Sir Ron Cooke. - - This volume examines brokerage as a key agent for change in higher education. Brokerage is a process that facilitates change at all levels of the education system and enables UK higher education to be more adaptive and responsive to society and more competitive in the global educational marketplace. New educational organizations are emerging as brokers to facilitate systemic change, and many people working in higher education use brokerage in their day-to-day professional activities. With its fresh insights and organizational case studies, this book will prove invaluable to anyone who works in an institutional change agency.
