This report is the first output of a major project that Universities UK initiated in 2007. The project is intended to provide a basis for assessing the size and shape of the UK higher education sector in 20 years’ time. Its analysis takes account of differences between the four UK countries. The project aims to improve understanding of the factors that may influence the growth of the sector and the position of universities (and groups of universities) within it.

 

Figures from the project's first report (published in March 2008) projected a moderate fall in the numbers of 18-20 year olds between now and 2019 across all four countries of the UK. The overall decline equates to 70,000 full-time undergraduate places over the next 10 years

 

This is the second report of a major project that Universities UK initiated last year. The project is intended to provide a framework for analysing how the size and shape of UK higher education may change over the next twenty years in response to demographic changes. I have posted on this at: http://eduspaces.net/terry/weblog/398618.html Slides summarising findings: demographic projections, Paul Ramsden http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Events/Documents/Brian%20Ramsden%2010.10-10.30%20(FOR%20DELEGATES%20ONLY).ppt and threates and opportunities Nigel Brown, http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Events/Documents/Nigel%20Brown%2010.30-10.50.ppt

 

 EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2 (March/April 2006): 58–71.

The Future for Higher Education:
Sunrise or Perfect Storm?
James Hilton
"In today’s knowledge economy, the role of higher education is being redefined—not simply tweaked and fine-tuned but, rather, fundamentally redefined. From where I stand, there are at least two ways to frame this future for higher education".