Ourania Filippakou is Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Postgraduate Taught Programmes in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hull. She holds a PhD from the Institute of Education, University of London. Her main areas of interest are in higher education policy analysis and social theory.
Gareth Williams is Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education, London University. He founded the Centre for Higher Education Studies in 1985 and was its Director until his retirement in 2001. An education economist; he has worked mainly on higher education finance.

Contents: Ourania Filippakou: Higher Education As a Public Good: Notes for a Discussion - Ronald Barnett: In Search of a Public: Higher Education in a Global Age - Paul Standish: Transparency, Accountability and the Public Role of Higher Education - Peter Scott: Higher Education, the Public Good and the Public Interest - Mala Singh: Institutionalising the Public Good: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges - Pedro Teixeira: A Most Public Private Matter - Changing Ideas of Economists about the Public-Private Dimensions of Higher Education - Angela Brew: The Paradoxical University and the Public Good - Ted Tapper: Is Higher Education a Public Good? An Analysis of the English Debate - Kai-ming Cheng/Rui Yang: A Cultural Value in Crisis: Education As Public Good in China - David D. Dill: Assuring the Public Good in Higher Education: Essential Framework Conditions and Academic Values - Jon Nixon: Inequality and the Erosion of the Public Good - Gareth Williams: Reflections on the Debate.