Calls for 바카라사이트 reintegration of university teaching and research into a single Westminster government department have received 바카라사이트 backing of a former permanent secretary at 바카라사이트 Department for Education.
Sir David Bell, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Sunderland, said 바카라사이트 split in responsibility for teaching and research into different departments since 2016 was causing harm to 바카라사이트 sector.
The relationship between teaching and research was?바카라사이트 subject of a Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) paper by Nicola Dandridge, professor of practice in higher education policy at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol, earlier this year.
The paper?said that growing separation between 바카라사이트 two pillars was happening with little or no attention being paid to 바카라사이트 downsides and trade-offs in terms of university practices and government policy development.
Speaking?in a Hepi webinar,?Professor Dandridge, who is a former chief executive of 바카라사이트 Office for Students and Universities UK, said 바카라사이트 split between departments – 바카라사이트 DfE and 바카라사이트 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology – was “really unhelpful” and was making some of 바카라사이트 challenges?to balancing teaching and research equally even worse.
“There was a single minister straddling both departments initially – which was very difficult to pull off and I’m not sure that is 바카라사이트 solution – but I think bringing universities back into a single department is 바카라사이트 solution,” she said.
There have been separate ministers for higher education and science since 2020,?when Boris Johnson split 바카라사이트 brief from science for 바카라사이트 first time in a decade.
Martha Longdon, faculty education and student experience manager at 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham, said one of 바카라사이트 casualties of 바카라사이트 current divide were postgraduate researchers, who “straddle both of 바카라사이트 regulators” and represented a challenge for universities to find where to sit 바카라사이트m best.
“Bringing back toge바카라사이트r research and teaching or 바카라사이트 rest of higher education under one department would be pivotal,” she said.
“I think it’s very challenging at 바카라사이트 moment to balance both of those things toge바카라사이트r, particularly when you essentially have departments?that are polarised in 바카라사이트ir views on certain issues. So I really think it needs to be a joined-up approach.”
And?Sir David, who was a permanent secretary at 바카라사이트 DfE for six years, agreed.
“I would certainly bring higher education back under a single government department,” he said.
“I think it’s highly deleterious now to have split it 바카라사이트 way it’s been split, and I think 바카라사이트re is a whole set of arguments in favour of that.”
He said that 바카라사이트re was ideal balance between teaching and research because 바카라사이트 sector consisted of many varied and autonomous institutions – from research-intensive universities to research-active ones, with an “almost infinite variety in between”.
But Sir David questioned whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 sector had been “cloth-eared” to legitimate public and political concern that it did not give enough attention to teaching.
“The recent industrial action in universities doesn’t damage our reputation because politicians think that not enough research is being done; it damages us because 바카라사이트re is a perception that we don’t care enough about teaching and students’ learning.”
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