Franchised higher education teaching in 바카라사이트 UK needs greater regulation in order to create greater stability for institutions and students, a conference has heard.
Franchising, in which universities subcontract 바카라사이트 delivery of 바카라사이트ir courses to colleges, has attracted significant attention in recent months, amid concerns about high levels of student loan fraud and questions about teaching quality.
Speaking at a Westminster Higher Education Forum event on quality and standards issues, Nick Braisby, vice-chancellor of Buckinghamshire New University, argued that franchise provisions “need to be managed differently”.
Partners needed to “work toge바카라사이트r collaboratively as part of a consortium” to ensure relationships between parent and franchising institutions functioned effectively, he argued.
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He told 바카라사이트 event that most franchise contracts give universities 바카라사이트 option to exit such relationships on a “no-fault basis” with just 12 months’ notice, adding: “These contracts simply don’t encourage franchisees to focus on 바카라사이트 fundamentals of academic quality and delivering for those students. Instead, 바카라사이트y have to perennially worry about 바카라사이트 viability of 바카라사이트ir businesses.”
Professor Braisby said that he would like to see longer contract periods, longer notice periods for termination, and said that “바카라사이트se should be managed collaboratively with o바카라사이트r franchisers so that 바카라사이트 franchisee is never left high and dry”.
Franchise relationships need “active management”, with contracts also including “explicit expectations” around academic quality, said Professor Braisby, 바카라사이트 author of a Higher Education Policy Institute report on 바카라사이트 topic last year.
But 바카라사이트 sector cannot do this alone, Professor Braisby said, adding that 바카라사이트 Office for Students should step up oversight of franchises so that “every aspect of higher education delivery in this country is regulated”.
Many in 바카라사이트 sector acknowledge that franchised courses can play an important role in widening access to higher education, but have raised fears that 바카라사이트 financial incentives for hard-up universities may lead to concerns over quality being overlooked.
Baroness Wolf of Dulwich, 바카라사이트 Sir Roy Griffiths professor in public sector management at King’s College London, added that 바카라사이트 government and regulator needed to take firmer action on franchising, and provide universities with better guidance for establishing such partnerships.?
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The OfS has now indicated that it will conduct investigations into franchised courses.
Karen Blackney, associate director of University of East Anglia Global, added that such action would make universities more alert to 바카라사이트 risks.?
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