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One of the constant themes of the recent sociology of higher education (HE) has been the globalisation of both knowledge and the transfer of scientists and researchers. Within this literature globalisation is often treated in terms of culture transfers, knowledge transfers and challenges to local identities. However, a key material feature is the intensification of competition — in all kinds of markets — from the local and regional to the global. This has happened in universities, nationally and internationally. A consequence of this has been the amplification of inequalities, marked in HE in the UK by the detaching of a small cluster of elite universities from the rest.
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Fenton, S., Modood, T., Smetherham, C. (2011). Academics and Globalisation. In: Modood, T., Salt, J. (eds) Global Migration, Ethnicity and Britishness. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307155_6
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