ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book highlights some issues that deserve closer attention by all the stakeholders if a compact for higher education is to be achieved. It explores comprehensively the many facets of a compact. This was all the more important since the notion of a compact as used in the Dearing Report (1997) has a very short pedigree in higher education and indeed has been relatively unaddressed by academics. The book discusses the constituents of a compact from the providers' perspectives and dealt mainly with the economic, political and technological consequences of such a compact. The quality agenda is here to stay and, at present, benchmark information on subject threshold standards is being circulated to universities for consultative purposes. The book focuses on to contributions from the consumers' perspectives.
