The decentralisation of the governance of UK higher education: the effects of devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and on England

Funding

This study is supported by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Office for Students and Research England (grant reference ES/M010082/2), and the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), University of Oxford, Oxford. The authors express their gratitude to the institutions visited and to the individuals who gave of their time to be interviewed. The authors also extend thanks to the anonymous reviewers for their helpful and constructive comments and suggestions. An early draft of this paper was presented to the EAIR Forum in Leiden in 2019. The authors greatly appreciate and thank the Forum organizers for making our participation possible and to the participants attending the presentation for their insightful questions and the discussions that followed.