Colin and Marion Bowl - two of the editors of this collection - will discuss the relationship between marketised HE system differentiation and the prospects for equality of access. The book also contains contributions from SIoE colleagues (and former colleagues) Jacqueline Stevenson, Carol Taylor, Manny Madriaga, Jean Harris-Evans, Damien Fitzgerald and Iain Garner.

Colin and Marion's talk will be framed around the aims and objectives of the book and how it

• Explores how discourses and practices of marketisation, differentiation and equity are manifested in higher education today
• Exposes the contradictions which arise between equity and an increasingly marketised higher education
• Examines the impact of marketisation on equity and equality in higher education