The decentralisation of the governance of higher education in the UK: the effects of devolution to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Devolution of the governance and management of higher education in the UK has taken place in two stages in 1992 and in 1997-8 in the context of a wider devolution of government which was driven primarily by political considerations. The research for the study represents the first attempt to assess the results in higher education just over a quarter of a century after the first steps were taken.