“…The United Kingdom, which abolished its binary system in the early 1990s, is now looking to re-establish more diversity with the above-mentioned aim of thereby enhancing participation. As in other countries which have a unitary system, such as Australia, the lack of differentiation between institutions, with resulting mission convergence and institutional isomorphism, is seen as a justification for new reforms (Scott, 2004;Moses, 2004). In the case of the UK this is leading to a new search for effective forms of diversity, including a renewed focus on the teaching mission of higher education institutions, as is for example expressed in the UK White Paper on Higher Education (DfES, 2004).…”