ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the idea of brokering in United Kingdom Higher Education (HE) as a means of promoting and facilitating complex learning and change. In the educational environment organizational brokering is an intentional act in which the broker seeks to work in collaborative and creative ways with people, ideas, knowledge and resources to develop something new or change something. Brokerage is a feature of trading environments in which a dealer or trader brings together people-ideas-finance to create new products and exploit new markets. Brokering processes do give people a chance to express their views and contribute to national developments. Brokering is an important process for developing and facilitating the use of knowledge in a large, complex, diverse HE system. The diffusion of knowledge in a way that influences thinking across a community of practitioners and facilitates wider usage is an important dimension of the brokerage function.
