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University entrance for undergraduate degree courses is highly competitive in the United Kingdom, both among students and universities. A model is proposed of regional competition among the latter, from which a number of indices of their relative competitiveness are derived. These are applied to empirical evidence for groups of neighbouring universities from which a regional pattern of competitiveness emerges in harmony with the national ‘north-south’ divide. The model is then extended to other aspects of higher education and to the wider space economy. Certain implications are identified, bearing in mind changes in the level and funding of degree course provision now being introduced nationally.
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Hoare, T. University competition, student migration and regional economic differentials in the United Kingdom. High Educ 22, 351–370 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00137030
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