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Category: HE
Association of Graduate Recruiters & Tax Avoid ...
Calls to raise tuition fees and increase parental contributions to education come as no surprise to us here at EducationState.
True to form, an organisation that no-one has ever heard of – Association of Graduate Recruiters – calls for radical changes designed to make the world a better place and then hopes that its members notice [...]
‘Campusleftovers’
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NUS – The Revival?
We have mocked the ineffectiveness of the NUS in years gone by but they are flexing their muscles again and we applaud them.
In today’s Guardian it is reported that, “Students will name and shame MPs who refuse to oppose rise in tuition fee”. Now modern-day students are not known for their radicalism and long gone [...]
Tuition Fees Comedy Review Players
Members’ biographies
Lord John Browne
John Browne was born in 1948. He joined BP in 1966 as a university apprentice. He holds a degree in Physics from Cambridge University and a MS Business from Stanford University, California. He is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society and The American Academy [...]
Tuition Fees Comedy Review
“The Universities Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced the appointment of Lord Browne of Madingley as chair of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance.”
A farce already. The appointments do not include anyone whose income will be harmed come the inevitable hike in fees. In fact, the review panel is so unbalanced and [...]
UK Universities & a pinch of salt
“Universities make £60bn a year for UK economy, study finds” faithfully reports the Guardian.
UK Universities report, produced for Universities UK by Ursula Kelly, Donald McLellan and Emeritus Professor Iain McNicoll of the University of Strathclyde, attempts to show how profitable and integral the university ‘industry’ is. Apparently, “through both direct and secondary or multiplier effects [...]
Nothing new about ‘Higher Ambitions’
Mr. Mandelson has today been on the radio and in Parliament preparing the ground for YET ANOTHER review of HE entitled Higher Ambitions that fails to offer anything we didn’t know.
First reactions to this have revolved around increased tuition fees and redirecting funds to on-line, mature and part-time students.
We’ve taken the statement made by [...]
WMD and Education Research
Recent headlines have highlighted how education research findings must be treated with a little suspicion.
Contrast the findings of the government-funded UK Commission for Employment and Skills (Ukces) review into further and higher education, which calls for yet more league tables – this time in FE – with the Cambridge Primary Review that calls for formal [...]
Leave those tuition fees alone
“Science adviser warns of fee rise”, writes someone at the Beeb.
We don’t think so. At EducationState we see this very differently. The Government to appease HE are appointing ‘advisors’ to make such statements so that HE staff can maintain their present living standards while pretending that to retain ‘our’ competitiveness in science we need to [...]
Good University Guide 2010: Do the tables work?
Ahem, not really. This post will set out an assessment of the methodology of the Times Good University Guide 2010. The aim is to show how judgements of quality based on these tables are untenable. More seriously, it highlights the muddle that the current all-encompassing scientific paradigm so beloved of Government has landed us [...]