1. See Mike Finn, ‘The Coming of the Coalition and the Coalition Agreement’ and ‘The Coalition and the Liberal Democrats’, in Anthony Seldon and Mike Finn (eds.), The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
2. Malcom Tight, The Development of Higher Education in the United Kingdom since 1945 (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2009).
3. Ngai Ling-Sum and Bob Jessop, ‘Competitiveness, the Knowledge-Based Economy and Higher Education’, Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 4 (2013), p. 36.
4. Stephen J. Ball, ‘Part 1: Perspectives on Policy Research’, in Stephen J. Ball (ed.), Education Policy and Social Class (Abingdon: Routledge, 1996), p. 7.
5. David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005);