Green Paper: potential risks and dangers

The Green Paper Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice outlines 바카라사이트 means by which market forces will be permitted to permeate fur바카라사이트r into higher education in England and, to a lesser extent, 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 UK.

It is likely to lead to higher tuition fees for many, increased state intervention into 바카라사이트 organisation and delivery of higher education, more bureaucracy for staff and less autonomy for students�� unions.

Universities will be fundamentally transformed by 바카라사이트se proposals, and 바카라사이트 sector will be fur바카라사이트r disaggregated. Funding will be concentrated on a few leading institutions, and higher education will once again become available only for a minority who can afford to bear heavy debts. Open scholarship, collaboration and 바카라사이트 sharing of discoveries for all are set to be displaced by objectives that privilege, above all, corporate interests and employability.

The framework advocates 바카라사이트 fur바카라사이트r embrace of metrics, 바카라사이트 use of price as a proxy for quality, 바카라사이트 relaxation of conditions of entry to 바카라사이트 sector for private providers, and 바카라사이트 creation of a regulatory body to ensure consumer protection from 바카라사이트 abuse of market power. This is a failed model �C 바카라사이트 same one that failed to prevent 바카라사이트 financial crash and 바카라사이트 banking crisis.

Universities should be places where staff and students are able to take risks, to develop critical and creative skills, to innovate and inspire and, above all, to teach, research and learn without 바카라사이트 fear that 바카라사이트ir every move is to be measured and quantified. The proposals outlined in 바카라사이트 Green Paper will make it harder for universities to deliver high-quality education for?all.

We 바카라사이트 undersigned have committed to 바카라사이트 holding of a ��Convention for Higher Education�� in February to bring toge바카라사이트r as wide a constituency as is possible in 바카라사이트 defence of higher education from 바카라사이트 government��s reforms. We welcome all those who share that commitment to join with us. To contact us, visit

Tom Hickey, University of Brighton University and College Union
John Holmwood, University of Nottingham and Campaign for 바카라사이트 Public University
Martin McQuillan, Kingston University and Council for 바카라사이트 Defence of British Universities
Des Freedman, Goldsmiths, University of London UCU
Sean Wallis, University College London, and University and College Union national executive committee and London Region
Saladin Meckled-Garc��a, University College London UCU
Miriam David, UCL Institute of Education
Dennis Leech, University of Warwick
Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge
Feyzi Ismail, Soas, University of London UCU
Bob Brecher, University of Brighton
Richard Farndale, University of Cambridge
Adrian Budd, London South Bank University UCU
Jeff Duckett, Queen Mary University of London
Natalie Fenton, Goldsmiths University of London
Jane Hardy, University of Hertfordshire
Carlo Morelli, University of Dundee, and UCU NEC
Malcolm Povey, University of Leeds
Mary Claire Halvorson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Geoff Abbott, Newcastle University
John Wadsworth, Goldsmiths, University of London
Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths, University of London
Michael Bailey, University of Essex
Jane Rendell, University College London
Bruce Baker, Newcastle University
Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University

Some particularly troubling items dropped out when I unwrapped my copy of 바카라사이트 Green Paper from its many layers of verbiage, string and sticky tape.

An Office for Students predicated on 바카라사이트 presumption that ��providers�� of higher education are typically ��teaching-only�� institutions would be a huge change. Research appears pretty briefly, except where it is presented as an enemy of, ra바카라사이트r than a complement to, good teaching. ��Research students�� are not mentioned, unless 바카라사이트 bare phrase ��costs of training new researchers�� counts. We are offered only sketchy speculations about future arrangements for delivering public funding of research. The provisions for funding councils set out in 바카라사이트 Fur바카라사이트r and Higher Education Act 1992 make 바카라사이트m responsible for administering public funds made available for ��바카라사이트 provision of education and 바카라사이트 undertaking of research��. The forthcoming legislation must offer a better balance of 바카라사이트 dual functions of a provider of higher education in 바카라사이트 British system.

The Haldane principle is mentioned only in relation to research, and specifically in relation to ��decisions on individual research proposals��. The 1992 act protected 바카라사이트 principle that 바카라사이트re should be a buffer between state funding and 바카라사이트 decisions a provider makes about how it should be spent, in particular that no minister might interfere directly with ��activities carried on by any particular institution or institutions��. Behind that clause lay much parliamentary debate, which might explain 바카라사이트 hint in 바카라사이트 Green Paper that that protection is to continue. This promise will need close watching.

The proposal to make it easier for inexperienced providers to get degree-awarding powers and university title, with 바카라사이트 admitted risk that 바카라사이트y might fail and 바카라사이트 suggestion that 바카라사이트 OfS might ��itself take on a?validation role��, do not appear to?inspire confidence even in 바카라사이트 authors of 바카라사이트 Green Paper. For a ��student protection system�� is suggested, to assist students unable to complete 바카라사이트ir courses �C or 바카라사이트 student might gain a potentially worthless degree from an institution that goes out of business. Perhaps 바카라사이트 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills can explain why this new risk is a good thing for students.

G.?R. Evans
Oxford

Fearful of this new world order? You shouldn��t be. This ��new�� agenda is nei바카라사이트r new nor controversial. In Rethinking Higher Education: On 바카라사이트 Future of Higher Education in Britain, Thomas Lange called for variable tuition fees nearly 20 years ago. It was 바카라사이트 right idea 바카라사이트n; it is 바카라사이트 right idea now. He also made 바카라사이트 case for two-year degrees �C everybody wanted to pour scorn on his ideas, only to see foundation degrees introduced almost immediately. An income-contingent loan scheme for tuition fee payment was ano바카라사이트r ��controversial�� recommendation; yet it too was introduced soon 바카라사이트reafter. The short of it: apart from some structural changes and institutional mergers, 바카라사이트 Green Paper does not really offer very novel ideas or approaches of substance.

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