Globalisation, Mergers and "Inadvertent Multi-Campus Universities": Reflections from Wales

Autor/inn/en	Zeeman, Nadine; Benneworth, Paul
Titel	Globalisation, Mergers and "Inadvertent Multi-Campus Universities": Reflections from Wales
Quelle	In: Tertiary Education and Management, 23 (2017) 1, S.41-52 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1358-3883
DOI	10.1080/13583883.2016.1243256
Schlagwörter	Multicampus Colleges; Knowledge Economy; Competition; Profiles; Institutional Characteristics; Geographic Location; Sustainability; Foreign Countries; Administrative Organization; Student Recruitment; Universities; College Administration; Rural Areas; Institutional Mission; Access to Education; Higher Education; United Kingdom (Wales); United Kingdom (London) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Knowledge society; Economy; Wissensgesellschaft; Wirtschaft; Wettkampf; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Nachhaltigkeit; Ausland; University; Universität; College administrators; Hochschulverwaltung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Multi-site universities face the challenge of integrating campuses that may have different profiles and orientations arising from place-specific attachments. Multi-campus universities created via mergers seeking to ensure long-term financial sustainability, and increasing their attractiveness to students, create a tension in campuses' purposes. We explore how mergers in Wales created "inadvertent" multi-campus universities whilst attempting to increase their overall competitiveness. We highlight three tensions that mergers created for contributing to local places, firstly a tendency for internal concentration, investing for growth in metropolitan not peripheral campuses; secondly, to looking beyond traditional local campuses and creating external campuses (in this case in London); and thirdly, to specialise campuses on the basis of attracting external students not local needs. This creates a substantial challenge for managing multi-campus universities if they are to continue to be able to support the prosperity of more remote regions in an increasingly knowledge-based economy. (As Provided).
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