Button, Catherine
The Impact of Student Fees
It is often said that “money makes the world go round.” When one looks to the challenges facing universities in the first quarter of the twenty-first century, it quickly becomes clear that money is a recurring and universal theme. Money enters almost every debate connected with higher education, even those that may appear more esoteric, such as debates concerned with the purpose and defining characteristics of university education. Money is also implicated when one asks how European universities are to respond to the changes to university education wrought by globalisation.
