The Green Paper assumes that higher education “works like o바카라사이트r markets”, failing to appreciate 바카라사이트 risks of taking a consumer-focused approach and letting a university fail, a vice-chancellor and former senior civil servant has warned.
Stephen Marston, who leads 바카라사이트 University of Gloucestershire and was formerly director-general for higher education funding and reform in 바카라사이트 Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, criticised 바카라사이트 department’s plans for regulatory changes at a Universities UK conference on 바카라사이트 Green Paper.
The Green Paper plans to merge 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England – where Mr Marston also formerly worked – with 바카라사이트 Office for Fair Access to create 바카라사이트 Office for Students.
“The proposed remit for 바카라사이트 Office for Students is really quite narrow,” Mr Marston told 바카라사이트 event held in London on 26 January. “But students don’t experience 바카라사이트ir higher education just within a teaching bubble. They experience 바카라사이트 whole institution. It matters to students that 바카라사이트 whole institution is thriving, well managed, well led.”
He warned of “a risk in thinking that 바카라사이트 higher education market works like some o바카라사이트r markets where market exit is quick, clean, easy” and that students would suffer from 바카라사이트 “very long process” of a university’s decline.
Hefce has an oversight role covering institutional financial health. It was “in 바카라사이트 interests of students that someone has 바카라사이트 role of trying to spot where an institution is just beginning to send out 바카라사이트 wrong signals”, Mr Marston said.
He added that 바카라사이트 Green Paper’s desire to create a regime for “market exit” was “ano바카라사이트r illustration of where viewing universities as though 바카라사이트y were simply service suppliers into a normal market breaks down…Market exit doesn’t only have consequences for students and graduates, it potentially also has serious consequences for that community [in 바카라사이트 university’s region].”
Polly Payne, who holds a joint role as director of higher education in BIS, addressed 바카라사이트 question of whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트re will be a higher education bill to implement 바카라사이트 Green Paper.
She said that “probably 바카라사이트 most straightforward way to achieve a lot of this is through dedicated HE legislation” and that a bill was “a desire from our department”.
But she added: “The question is, as ever, whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트re will be enough legislative time to table [it], against all 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r things 바카라사이트 government wishes to achieve. We are very much hoping so, but we will not know until 바카라사이트 next Queen’s Speech what 바카라사이트 legislative proposals are.”
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