Posted by Editors In The News, Tuition Fees, UCU Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Vive La Révolution! “What is the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts? The National Campaign against Fees and Cuts is a group of activists from universities, colleges and schools across the country that co-ordinate action against tuition fees and education funding cuts. Students were brought together by a realisation of the extent of the attacks [...]
Posted by Editors In The News, Media Watch, Ofsted, Primary Education, Research Sunday, November 14th, 2010
“Ofsted inspectors say literacy standards ‘fall short’”, the Beeb reports. This simply isn’t true. What has really fallen short are literacy test scores not literacy standards. OfSTED are confusing scores with literacy levels. A child that does badly on a test isn’t necessarily lacking in literacy. They are just unable to score high enough on [...]
Posted by Editors Education Reform, HE, In The News, Tuition Fees Friday, November 12th, 2010
The protests against recent proposals to charge UK students tuition fees have been largely met with sympathy from all sections of UK society. From comments pages, blogs and popular news features, however, it is clear that there is a vocal minority less sympathetic. The unsympathetic reason that education is a privilege and not a right [...]
Posted by Editors Education Business, Education Reform, HE, In The News, League Tables, Media Watch, NUS, Politics, Tuition Fees Thursday, November 11th, 2010
The Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts march yesterday (11/11/10) was an eye-opener for many reasons. One reason why it drew our attention was the lack of unity shown by the student reps. The NUS leader seemed more intent on covering his own back by saying that the violence had overshadowed the purpose of the [...]
Posted by Editors HE, In The News, Politics, Tuition Fees Friday, November 5th, 2010
In Browne’s Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance when it comes to the task of allocating public money to the right university courses, we are told that the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will decide (See pp. 25, 47, for e.g.) Browne recommends that priority be given to “medicine, science [...]
Posted by Editors Education Business, Education Reform, HE, In The News, Politics, Tuition Fees Friday, November 5th, 2010
Strongly argued article in the London Review of Books by Stefan Collini. “Browne’s Gamble Stefan Collini * Securing a Sustainable Future for Higher Education: An Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance by Lord Browne et al 62 pp, October 2010 Much of the initial response to the Browne Report seems to have [...]
Posted by Editors HE, In The News, NUS, Politics, Tuition Fees, UCU Friday, November 5th, 2010
“Join us as we march on the streets of central London to fight against the looming, savage education cuts. NUS and UCU are jointly organising a national demonstration – ‘Fund Our Future: Stop Education Cuts’ – to take place on Wednesday 10 November 2010. Meet at Horse Guards Avenue – 11.30am.”
Posted by Editors In The News, Media Watch Friday, November 5th, 2010
‘X factor’ Bangor teacher wins UK award reads the Beeb. Well, really. That’ll make everything else go away. No worries about mortgages, £9000 tuition fees for their offspring, political interference, over-bearing managers, meaningless paperwork and yet more paperwork, disrespectful kids, pushy parents, unscientific research initiatives and no time for a normal social life. The award [...]
Posted by Editors Education Business, Education Reform, HE, In The News, Politics, Russell Group, Tuition Fees Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
The BBC reports that the Coalition of One will now be charging students £9000 tuition fees from 2012. Why anyone would pay for an English university course now is beyond us. Overcrowded, poorly-staffed and horribly overcharged doesn’t seem a recipe for quality education. With all this in mind, and for those who haven’t cottoned on [...]
Posted by Editors Education Business, HE, Russell Group Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
We have been provided with some Russell Group news that surprised us. “Going private: now it isn’t the LSE I noted in the Newsletter two weeks ago newspaper speculation that Cambridge was considering going private. It ran for a few days, despite – or perhaps because of – being officially denied. This week the same [...]