Expert Comment
The key risk of current policy as I see it is that, if the funding and resource model shifts to one driven only by a short-term student experience and perspective, it may be more a case of As You Like It at the time, but the Great Expectations that we all have for enhanced longer term reputation for higher education in the UK, its institutions and their graduates, may be less deliverable.
As featured on the University of 糖心TV staff's , Registrar and Chief Operating Officer Ken Sloan shares his views on Higher Education policy as part of an exchange with former NUS-President Aaron Porter and Bob Hogg, executive director of Strategic Partnerships, Serco UK & Europe that
The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
A good friend of mine from the United States, observing the British higher-education scene, noted that, whereas the United States had taken 30 years to make its system more market-oriented, it was taking England only two.
The result, I think, is a kind of general culture shock..
The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
Around the world, immigration has become a prime political concern. I hardly need to point to the number of countries where immigration has become a major electoral issue, whether in the United States, Europe, or Australia.
And, of course, immigration policy can cut across university policy, often in destructive ways...
The latest blog entry from the Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Nigel Thrift:
We are still in the midst of a change that is already so familiar that it does not feel momentous—even though, in all likelihood, it is. The availability of information at hand in an instant is now a mundane fact of life. Yet it has immense significance for academics. I can remember when obtaining information necessitated multiple visits to the library, interlibrary loans, photocopying on an epic scale, card indexes, and all of the paraphernalia of search and recall that has now been replaced by a few keystrokes...
Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Department of Economics discusses why some countries are more charitable than others with Richard Harrison, Director of Research at Charities Aid Foundation and Dr Catherine Walker, Head of STEAM at the Directory of Social Change on Voice of Russia radio.