This book explores the impact of localities and regions on
universities and shows how the diversity of the higher education
landscape is critically affected by the geophysical character of
regions and their differentiated economies and cultures; regional
inequalities bear heavily on universities' strategy-making. A study
of the interrelationship between higher and further education
argues that from a regional perspective a change to a tertiary
education system in England (following Wales) would create the
conditions for better local and regional coordination. Universities
make a significant contribution to 'levelling up' through
technology transfer and the creation of innovation hubs but the
contribution of locally or regionally based students who on
graduation return to disadvantaged communities rather than seek
employment elsewhere should be recognised also as a longer term
step to redressing regional inequality. The book argues strongly
that the time has come to decentralise the governance of a
re-aligned tertiary system to regions and identifies the move to
create metro mayors and combined authorities as providing the
appropriate vehicle to release new initiative from regional
sources. It cites the success of decentralisation to Scotland and
Wales as offering relevant models for scrutiny. The authors draw on
12 UK widely differentiated university case studies, a survey of
further education and a study of three continental European
comparators (Germany, Ireland and Norway) to develop the argument.
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