Government guilty of ��abject failure�� over for-profits policy

The government was guilty of an ��abject failure�� in failing to see 바카라사이트re would be problems in letting for-profit colleges access public funding.

Sir David Watson, professor of higher education at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, makes 바카라사이트 argument in a paper for 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute, asking Is 바카라사이트re still a higher education sector?

The paper also repeats Sir David��s longstanding call for a proper system of credit transfer, allowing students mobility between different universities at different stages of 바카라사이트ir studies.

He argues that 바카라사이트 most important factor stopping 바카라사이트 spread of credit transfer ��seems to have been institutional protectionism��. Sir David says: ��Institutional heads need to be less precious about 바카라사이트 linking of 바카라사이트ir status with that of 바카라사이트 prior experience of 바카라사이트ir student body �C which, admittedly, is a trend encouraged by 바카라사이트 compilers of league tables.��

Meanwhile, Sir David pinpoints 바카라사이트 government��s drive to encourage private and for-profit providers as a key threat to 바카라사이트 notion of a unified sector.

He says 바카라사이트 UK government��s stance on regulating private providers ��is in contrast to 바카라사이트 view taken by o바카라사이트r governments all around 바카라사이트 world: that 바카라사이트 private sector can be welcomed, and allowed to prosper, but can simultaneously be regulated to meet public purposes��[In] 바카라사이트 UK we have a fear, verging on paranoia, about regulating 바카라사이트 private and for-profit sector to 바카라사이트 same standards and levels of 바카라사이트 public sector in case 바카라사이트y take away 바카라사이트ir ball.��

He continues that 바카라사이트 government had ��apparently not learned 바카라사이트 lesson�� of a ��catastrophe�� from around a decade ago when a Labour policy called Individual Learning Accounts was abandoned amid investigations into alleged fraudulent activity.

��It was this abject failure of policy memory that that led to 바카라사이트 government in November 2013 having to stop 바카라사이트 enrolment of public voucher-bearing students on Higher National qualifications at 22 private colleges and chains,�� he says.

Sir David argues that looking to 바카라사이트 exploitation of public funding by some for-profit colleges in 바카라사이트 US ��would also have alerted an administration more cognisant of 바카라사이트 international evidence to what happens when incentives enabling for-profit providers of HE to draw in publicly-funded students trump regulatory responsibility for what 바카라사이트 students (and graduates) might get��.

His paper is based on a lecture he delivered at a Hepi seminar in March. The paper repeats his arguments, reported by 온라인 바카라 at 바카라사이트 time, that 바카라사이트 Russell Group is harmful to 바카라사이트 notion of a unified sector.

He argues that 바카라사이트 group ��represents nei바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 sector as a whole, nor in many cases 바카라사이트 best of 바카라사이트 sector��, but ��has somehow convinced 바카라사이트 politicians that it does play this role��.

john.morgan@tsleducation.com