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England and the UK as a whole have a unitary higher education system that has resulted from the merger of the polytechnic system with the ‘autonomous’ university sector in 1992. The number of universities has subsequently been on the rise (115 in the UK 2011/2012), as a number of higher education colleges were able to obtain university status with degree-awarding powers after the traditional requirement dictating that universities should have a significant research mission was modified in 1998 (De Boer, Jongbloed et al. 2010, p.665). There were 2.66 million (including 920,300 part-time) higher education students in the United Kingdom in 2010/2011 compared to 1.1 million in 1990/1991.
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Weyer, E. (2018). Higher Education in England. In: From Loose to Tight Management. Organization & Public Management. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-19749-0_7
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