New Dawn: The Turn of the Millennium, 1990–2020

The 1990s marked a period of significant change for higher education institutions in the United Kingdom, with reforms conducted throughout the 1980s laying the groundwork for a further professionalisation of academic life. These organisational and cultural transformations were accompanied by a change in demographics, with more and more women entering higher education, both as students but also as professors, and the overall student body growing increasingly international. The School also began a wider pivot of its student body towards the European Union, opening up the Government Department to an influx of new students from all over the continent. As the