Acknowledgements
The research on which this article is based has been carried out within the Centre for Global Higher Education, Oxford. The funding support of the Economic and social Research Council, the Office for Students and Research England (grant references ES/MO10082/1, ES/MO10082/2 and ES/TO14768/1) is gratefully acknowledged. I am indebted to my colleagues Dr Aniko Horvath and Professor Jurgen Enders for allowing me to draw on their contributions for the project on the European governance of higher education for the purpose of writing this article.
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Michael Shattock
Michael Shattock was Registrar of the University of Warwick 1983–1999 and is a Visiting Professor, UCL Institute of Education and Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford. Member of MUAAS 1966, thereafter AUA until 1999; Honorary Member AUA 1999–