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The United Kingdom has a truly mass system of higher education. The total number of higher education students enrolled in universities and colleges was 2.5 million in 2014/15 (Table 1). Many more are studying on lower-level technical education courses in further education colleges and on adult education courses.
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Scott, P., Callender, C. (2017). United Kingdom: From Binary to Confusion. In: Altbach, P.G., Reisberg, L., Wit, H.d. (eds) Responding to Massification. Global Perspectives on Higher Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-083-7_12
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