'This book shows that England is unusual if not unique in establishing an Office for Fair Access to safeguard and promote fair access by regulating institutions charging of variable tuition fees for undergraduate programmes through approval of access agreements. For this reason if no other, the experiement should be worth observing.'- Gareth Moodie, Griffith University, Australia

• Preface, Contributors, 1. The rise of mass higher education, 2. Values, discourse and politics: an Australian comparative perspective, 3. The politics of access to higher education in France, 4. Bildung or Ausbildung? Reorienting German higher education, 5. The value of higher education in a mass system: the Italian debate, 6. Access to Dutch higher education: policies and trends, 7. Access to higher education in the Nordic countries, 8. Mass higher education in Poland: coping with the ‘Spanish Collar’, 9. British higher education and the prism of devolution, 10. Access to higher education in England: who is in control?, 11. A transatlantic persuasion: a comparative look at America’s path towards access and equity in higher education, 12. Conclusion: the reshaping of mass higher education, Index

'This book shows that England is unusual if not unique in establishing an Office for Fair Access to safeguard and promote fair access by regulating institutions charging of variable tuition fees for undergraduate programmes through approval of access agreements. For this reason if no other, the experiement should be worth observing.'- Gareth Moodie, Griffith University, Australia

• Preface, Contributors, 1. The rise of mass higher education, 2. Values, discourse and politics: an Australian comparative perspective, 3. The politics of access to higher education in France, 4. Bildung or Ausbildung? Reorienting German higher education, 5. The value of higher education in a mass system: the Italian debate, 6. Access to Dutch higher education: policies and trends, 7. Access to higher education in the Nordic countries, 8. Mass higher education in Poland: coping with the ‘Spanish Collar’, 9. British higher education and the prism of devolution, 10. Access to higher education in England: who is in control?, 11. A transatlantic persuasion: a comparative look at America’s path towards access and equity in higher education, 12. Conclusion: the reshaping of mass higher education, Index

'This book shows that England is unusual if not unique in establishing an Office for Fair Access to safeguard and promote fair access by regulating institutions charging of variable tuition fees for undergraduate programmes through approval of access agreements. For this reason if no other, the experiement should be worth observing.'- Gareth Moodie, Griffith University, Australia

• Preface, Contributors, 1. The rise of mass higher education, 2. Values, discourse and politics: an Australian comparative perspective, 3. The politics of access to higher education in France, 4. Bildung or Ausbildung? Reorienting German higher education, 5. The value of higher education in a mass system: the Italian debate, 6. Access to Dutch higher education: policies and trends, 7. Access to higher education in the Nordic countries, 8. Mass higher education in Poland: coping with the ‘Spanish Collar’, 9. British higher education and the prism of devolution, 10. Access to higher education in England: who is in control?, 11. A transatlantic persuasion: a comparative look at America’s path towards access and equity in higher education, 12. Conclusion: the reshaping of mass higher education, Index