Demographic developments

Malcolm Tight

Chapter 3 in Rethinking the Academic Experience, 2025, pp 19-36 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter focuses on the underlying demographic developments affecting higher education. The first section, on massification, discusses the massive growth in the size of the higher education sector that has occurred since the 1950s, and the impacts this has had. This growth took place first in North America, then spread to European and Asia-Pacific countries, and is now affecting most higher education systems, at least to some degree, worldwide. The second section, on academic workloads, examines the evidence on how these have changed over time in response to massification and other pressures, and in what ways. The third and final section then considers how and why many nations have sought and managed to develop and maintain elite sub-systems within their massified higher education systems.

Keywords: Demographic developments; Massification; Academic workloads; Elite sub-systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035308378
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