A Critical Analysis of Key Policy Documents to inform the Strategic Choices available to the Higher Education Art and Design Sector for the next five year

The Academy is changing: either through rehearsed debates on globalisation, marketisation, new public managerialism, and social mobility or through more recent challenges beset by fiscal, political, economic and social issues. In this context the role of the 21st Century University is under scrutiny, every aspect is being questioned, and whilst this is challenging it can also bring about a new freshness in thinking and ideas that might enable a different, but positive approach to Higher Education. Equally other aspects of social and economic life are being tested due to the current economic climate.