Mergers in Higher Education: Knowledge Resource
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Mergers occur when two or more organisations (or institutions) combine either to create one new organisation, or retaining the identity of one of the original organisations. Mergers continue to be relatively common in the corporate sector. In higher/further education (H/FE) in the UK there have been two key periods of intense merger activity in recent years the late 1980s to early 1990s and then the late 1990s to early 2000s. The latest indication is that many in the UK expect a new phase of mergers to take place either following the recession or in response to other political pressures.
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