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What Do Higher Education Consumers Want?

By Daniel Nehring | Published: May 18, 2012

The Guardian yesterday published a set of worrying facts. Even though consumers of higher education pay almost three times as much in tuition fees than they did six years ago, face-to-face with lecturers in class has barely increased

Students as consumers – the impact of individual choice

By Dominic Abrams | Published: June 30, 2011

The higher education White Paper published this week by the UK government (‘Students at the heart of the system’) will, according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, achieve a number of astonishing improvements and transformations. Many of its aims are laudable and it would be marvellous if the higher education system (in England) […]

Why understanding can’t be bought or sold

By Social Science Space | Published: February 28, 2011

A blog by Les Back on Sociology and the Cuts argues that it is wrong to blame consumerist students for the way that educational value is now being measured, and suggests that academics may need to look again at the way they teach. “I need to get the most out of this because I am paying for […]

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