Acknowledgements.- Part One: Understanding Change and Interpreting Modes of Governance.- Setting the Scene.- The State and the Governance of Higher Education: Contextualising he Changing Relationship.- From the UGC and NAB to the Funding Council Model of Governance.- State Power: Convergence and Fragmentation.- Devolution and the Governance of British Higher Education.- Part Two: Shaping Policy.- The Role of the Political Parties.- Parliament as a...