ABSTRACT
These projects were, of course, situated within the context of wider UK and international transformations of higher education in relation to the global knowledge economy. In presenting our research we will, inevitably, have to consider the changing policy contexts of post-compulsory education and how these have developed out of policy and practice initiatives over a long historical sweep. This will take into consideration the second half of the twentieth century as a backdrop to these particular policy shifts towards mass higher education (and indeed massive universities) and wider economic and labour market changes with demographic implications. These changes were also entwined with the more international and global economic transformations, often considered as part of globalisation.
