ABSTRACT
Some of the troubles are associated with changes in the nature of the work people do and the status that goes with it. For example, the academics often feel beleaguered: transformed into a minority and witnessing their own inexorable absorption into a mass of staff. This chapter discusses several examples of the problems brought about by changes and pressures imposed upon the higher education sector, both by its own internal evolution and by external agencies and suggest some tentative solutions. The chapter considers the most important problem amongst many problems, and argues that one of the main sources of trouble in the universities, especially the newer institutions, has been the great change in the student population. It explains how to face the changes. The net has been cast more widely and it has caught, not merely a greater variety of students, but a shoal of new needs, wants and aspirations.
