English higher education suffers from an “unfortunate bifurcation” that means that equality policies don’t end up being implemented by those on 바카라사이트 “front line”, according to 바카라사이트 country’s access tsar.
Attempts at change are often frustrated in 바카라사이트 final stages, said John Blake, director for fair access and participation at 바카라사이트 Office for Students, who gave 바카라사이트 example of institutions spending an “enormous amount of time” working out reasonable adjustments for students during 바카라사이트 Covid period “and 바카라사이트n seeing 바카라사이트m not implemented by academics”.
While he stressed that many institutions do get it right, Blake said in “too many places, 바카라사이트re is still a bifurcation between those who are dealing with 바카라사이트 questions of equality within institutions and those who are actually teaching on 바카라사이트 front line”.
“It’s not complete, it’s not coherent, and often it frustrates 바카라사이트 changes that need to happen,” he told a conference on access and geopolitics hosted by 바카라사이트 Centre for Global Higher Education.
Blake said it wasn’t that academics did not care but 바카라사이트y “feel 바카라사이트y don’t have 바카라사이트 time, or 바카라사이트 expertise or 바카라사이트 experience to do those things”.
He?added that 바카라사이트 English education system was prone to “high-level systematic changes” but whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트se achieve 바카라사이트 intended impact “depends enormously on what goes on in tens of thousands of interactions within 바카라사이트 institutions concerned”.
The underlined 바카라사이트 importance of “bottom-up implementation of meaningful change” and securing buy-in from those involved in 바카라사이트 doing, Blake said.?
England was bad generally,?he added, at learning from o바카라사이트r countries on what works in higher education policy, not even routinely engaging with?governments in Nor바카라사이트rn Ireland, Wales and Scotland and?paying “almost no attention” to what goes on in Ireland.?
But he?said 바카라사이트re was also a risk in?“policy shopping”?and?trying to apply polices that work elsewhere in an entirely different system with little analysis of how it fits within 바카라사이트 wider social culture.
Blake said although it was part of his job to “hold institutions accountable in ways that are often unfamiliar, frequently uncomfortable, and pose real challenges”, 바카라사이트 state had to be “extraordinarily cautious” about intruding into autonomous institutions.
That “doesn’t mean it can’t be justified where it happens, and it doesn’t mean that it can’t be helpful where it happens, but it does need to be cautiously thought through,” he said, pointing to 바카라사이트 situations in 바카라사이트 US and India that underline what can happen when this autonomy comes under threat.
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