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The Value Added by Universities Exceeds Their Constituent Services

By Steve Fuller | Published: November 24, 2015

Academics do not simply teach and do research: they are teacher-researchers, notes Steve Fuller. In reviewing the UK spending review, he says, it is the value added to society by nurturing this complex role that should be at the forefront of the state’s thinking about the criteria used to fund universities.

Posted in Academic Funding, Higher Education Reform, Public Policy | Also tagged Spending Review, The Conversation, Value for Money | Leave a comment

A Marketplace of Ideas? Yes. A Market? No

By Simon Jackson, Ann Thomson and Stefan Nygard | Published: March 25, 2015

Research and teaching have never been free from external constraints and public universities have long been expected to justify the resources society devotes to them. But universities feel threatened and increasingly incapable of fulfilling their primary functions.

Posted in Higher Education Reform | Also tagged Academic Freedom, The Conversation | Leave a comment

Pricing the ‘Great Cost Shift’ in US Higher Ed

By Steven C. Ward | Published: June 19, 2014

Some Australians have looked to the United States as a model for revamping Oz's higher education system. U.S.-based sociologist Steven Ward suggests they ought to take another look.

Posted in Higher Education Reform, Teaching | Also tagged Australia, United States | Leave a comment

Universities awarded £19.5 million for overhaul of quantitative social science training

By Nuffield Foundation | Published: October 8, 2013

Fifteen universities across the UK will receive £19.5 million to overhaul their social science teaching over the next five years. This funding comes from Q-Step, an ambitious intervention to address the critical shortage of social scientists with the quantitative skills needed to evaluate evidence and analyse data. Together with […]

Living Death in the Academy

By David Canter | Published: July 12, 2013

David Canter reveals the plague that is infecting education.

Posted in International Debate | Also tagged Academia, Bureaucratization, Higher Education, reform, students, Teaching, Undead | 1 Response

Universities for the Post-Democratic Age

By Daniel Nehring | Published: June 23, 2013

Critical scholarship and intellectual dissent are currently being closed down in favour of a model of academic life that accords scholars a limited role as purveyors of practically useful skills in ‘real-world’ labour markets.

Accountability, Compliance and Bureaucratisation in Higher Education

By Ferdinand von Prondzynski | Published: April 26, 2013

Around the educational mission we are now spinning a web of ‘accountability’ that has little to do with explaining or justifying our activities, and much to do with obscuring our responsibility through the creation of elaborate processes.

Can We Make College Cheaper?

By Pacific-Standard Magazine | Published: February 15, 2013

The authors of “Why Does College Cost So Much?” take a look at the root causes and determine that we can reduce the price of higher education, but not dramatically.

Posted in Academic Funding, Career, Higher Education Reform | Also tagged austerity, Class, Cost of College, Higher Education Reform, Research Costs, Social Science, State Funding, Tuition, Tuition Fees | Leave a comment

The Decline of Public Debates About Higher Education in Britain

By Daniel Nehring | Published: August 21, 2012

Just a few years ago, critical voices could still speak through mainstream media to highlight the dangers of the quickly accelerating commercialisation of academia. These commentators have now been pushed to the margins.

Recent speeches by UK Universities Minister on the Government’s vision for higher education

By Social Science Space | Published: March 3, 2011

The Universities and Science Minister, David Willetts MP, has made several key speeches recently setting out the Government’s views on the role of universities. At Nottingham University last month, David Willetts stated that universities can improve social mobility without compromising their academic integrity: “The primary role of universities is to enrich our knowledge and understanding. That is […]

Posted in Academic Funding, Impact, International Debate | Also tagged Birth Cohort Studies, Coalition, Funding, Research Excellence Framework, Social Mobility, Tuition Fees | 2 Responses

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