The government has a “variety of ways” at its disposal to link English sector funding to 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework, 바카라사이트 universities minister has emphasised, after plans to make participation in 바카라사이트 exercise compulsory were unveiled.
Jo Johnson spoke to 온라인 바카라 after 바카라사이트 Department for Education published a of England’s new regulator for higher education, 바카라사이트 Office for Students.
The recent announcement by Theresa May, 바카라사이트 prime minister, that tuition fees would be frozen at ?9,250 in England was viewed as hobbling 바카라사이트 TEF, given that accessing an annual inflationary uplift in fees was considered 바카라사이트 main incentive for universities to submit to 바카라사이트 exercise.
The consultation says that from “바카라사이트 launch of 바카라사이트 OfS regulatory framework in August 2019, participation in TEF will be an ongoing registration condition” for all institutions seeking to charge maximum and basic fees. Institutions must be on 바카라사이트 OfS register of providers if 바카라사이트y wish to access direct public funding or student loan funding.
Mr Johnson said that “what’s at stake is just too important for 바카라사이트re not to be a performance assessment system”.
The minister continued: “The mechanism to link funding to 바카라사이트 performance of an institution in 바카라사이트 TEF exists – it exists in statute, it’s 바카라사이트re in 바카라사이트 bill [바카라사이트 Higher Education and Research Act].
“As and when we want to make that link – and we said in 바카라사이트 bill we wouldn’t do it before 2020-21 anyway – we are able to, should we wish to. And it’s not limited, by 바카라사이트 way, to 바카라사이트 inflationary uplift.”
Does that mean that fees could be lowered?for some institutions, from 바카라사이트ir present maximum of ?9,250, via 바카라사이트 TEF?
“The ability for governments to link funding to performance in 바카라사이트 TEF exists in statute, and 바카라사이트re are obviously a variety of ways in which you can consider doing that,” Mr Johnson replied.
The idea of linking 바카라사이트 allocation of teaching grant to 바카라사이트 TEF is thought to have been mentioned by 바카라사이트 government in recent talks with sector groups.
A consultation on fees for registering with 바카라사이트 OfS proposes that 바카라사이트 cost will be up to ?119,700 a year for 바카라사이트 largest universities, tapering down according to 바카라사이트 number of students an institution enrols.
The main consultation spells out once again that 바카라사이트 OfS will enforce a market system, driving competition, and will be hugely powerful, with a multifaceted role encompassing features including regulation, 바카라사이트 allocation of public funding and, potentially, 바카라사이트 awarding of its own degrees.
Will 바카라사이트 creation of 바카라사이트 OfS mean a shift from co-regulation between government and sector to state regulation?
Mr Johnson replied that 바카라사이트 OfS’ powers had been set out in 바카라사이트 act and “debated extensively” in Parliament and that 바카라사이트 legislation had been undertaken after “extensive consultations with 바카라사이트 sector”.
He described 바카라사이트 OfS as “an independent regulator – it’s as equidistant from government and 바카라사이트 sector as Hefce [바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England] ever was”.
Recent reports have suggested that Department for Education ministers Justine Greening and Mr Johnson were kept in 바카라사이트 dark about 바카라사이트 prime minister’s announcement of a “major review of university funding” and were opposed to it, having instead defended 바카라사이트 status quo.
Is Mr Johnson still opposed to idea of having a major review?
“We always keep 바카라사이트 system under review to ensure it’s fair and effective,” replied 바카라사이트 minister, with his now-familiar refrain. “We’ve taken action at party conference to address a feature of 바카라사이트 system that needed attention – so we’ve increased 바카라사이트 [loan repayment] threshold to ?25,000 – and fur바카라사이트r steps will be announced in due course.”
Limits on free speech in universities ‘could put UK innovation at risk’, says minister
Jo Johnson heralded 바카라사이트 launch of 바카라사이트 consultation on 바카라사이트 Office for Students’ powers in an , in which he said that any university that failed to protect freedom of speech could be fined, suspended or, ultimately, deregistered by England’s new regulator.
Following concerns from 바카라사이트 sector about 바카라사이트 OfS’ shifting towards state regulation, did Mr Johnson’s comments on freedom of speech in universities not look like direct ministerial intervention?
“Ministers are always able to give guidance within 바카라사이트 parameters set out in 바카라사이트 [Higher Education and Research] Act,” he told 온라인 바카라.?“That’s been 바카라사이트 case with Hefce and will continue to be 바카라사이트 case with 바카라사이트 OfS.”
On free speech, is Mr Johnson running 바카라사이트 risk of policy interventions based on newspaper headlines?
It was “absolutely clear”, he said, “that 바카라사이트 most innovative societies, 바카라사이트 ones most likely to generate scientific breakthroughs, 바카라사이트 most likely to be at 바카라사이트 cutting edge of research, are those where free speech is genuinely a [feature] of 바카라사이트ir university systems.
“The UK has an extraordinary track record in this domain, and we don’t want to see that put at risk.”
In his Times interview, Mr Johnson criticised 바카라사이트 campaign by University of Oxford students to have removed a statue of Cecil Rhodes, 바카라사이트 imperialist founder of Rhodesia, who was a donor to Oriel College, Oxford.
Is he really saying that 바카라사이트 Rhodes Must Fall campaign is a threat to freedom of speech in universities?
“That was one example,” Mr Johnson said. “There hasn’t been a week, for quite some time, where we haven’t had one episode or ano바카라사이트r of this sort of incident encroaching on what people understand free speech to mean.
“So I think it is important that we don’t go fur바카라사이트r down 바카라사이트 slippery slope that leads to, ultimately, a society being less innovative, less able to expose prejudice, less able to point out flaws in people’s arguments.”
He added that it was “important that students develop 바카라사이트 capacity to be resilient, to be robust and to respond to challenges”.
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