Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of the higher education policy in the United Kingdom. The British higher education system is characterized by its binary structure. However, although it is conventional to emphasize the binary division, by international standards most of the institutions, whatever their binary origins, offer a similar type of higher education. Virtually all institutions offer the 3-year bachelor program, and most also offer postgraduate degrees leading to master and doctoral qualifications. Some institutions offer part-time variants of these courses, particularly in the case of postgraduate awards. The ex-polytechnics and the colleges also offer some lower level qualifications, in particular, the 2-year programs leading to diplomas and certificates of the Business and Technician Education Council and other vocational qualifications. Although there are not rigid differences between institutions, there are real differences in emphasis, and these relate to their binary origins. In the ex-polytechnics and colleges there are more part-time students, rather more sandwich degrees, and more courses with a vocational or employment-related emphasis.
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