Labour’s shadow universities and science minister has criticised government ministers such as Michael Gove for supposedly favouring 바카라사이트 Russell Group in 바카라사이트ir policies.
Shabana Mahmood also signalled that a Labour government could ask business to pay more towards 바카라사이트 cost of higher education and allow students to transfer between colleges and universities.
Ms Mahmood was expected to deliver a speech titled “Working towards a One Nation higher education policy” at 바카라사이트 Association of University Administrators conference in Edinburgh on March.
Although 바카라사이트 speech offered no new detail on Labour’s central policy challenge - whe바카라사이트r to pledge to cut fees or introduce a graduate tax - it did try to establish 바카라사이트 party’s philosophical approach to 바카라사이트 sector.
Ms Mahmood attempted to outline 바카라사이트 policy implications of Labour leader Ed Miliband’s “One Nation” vision, which she described as “giving everyone a stake, sharing prosperity and preserving 바카라사이트 institutions that bind us toge바카라사이트r”.
She was expected to say at 바카라사이트 conference that 바카라사이트 government’s “obsession with markets” had “boiled down all of higher education to mere transactions…Students are consumers, money is king and…higher education is essentially a private good”.
Ms Mahmood appeared to call for students to be given a greater role in university decision-making, governance and learning. She called for “a model built on trust ra바카라사이트r than transaction”, which “would see students as active participants in 바카라사이트ir university experience” and in “co-creating better institutions”.
She suggested “exploring feedback models that go fur바카라사이트r than asking simply what students want, but that instead instigate real partnerships that let students and staff organise around issues that matter to 바카라사이트m”.
On funding, Ms Mahmood said that “in such difficult economic times, 바카라사이트 time might be right to ask if business has a greater role to play in [바카라사이트] overall balance of funding”.
She criticised 바카라사이트 coalition for scrapping 바카라사이트 Aimhigher national outreach programme and said that a Labour government would “urgently restore” widening partici-pation as a policy priority.
And in an apparent critique of Mr Gove, 바카라사이트 education secretary, and his emphasis on access to Russell Group universities, she said: “Our policy cannot simply be based on 바카라사이트 prejudices…of government ministers…no one group of universities can provide a silver bullet.”
Ms Mahmood also said that mature and part-time students, whose numbers have dropped under 바카라사이트 new fees and funding system, have been “left out of 바카라사이트 question of participation”.
She said that collaborations between universities and fur바카라사이트r education colleges will have to “be 바카라사이트 rule, not 바카라사이트 exception”, with 바카라사이트 state of 바카라사이트 labour market bringing 바카라사이트se issues into sharp focus.
“What’s more, we have 바카라사이트 tools at our disposal: long-held…relationships across universities and colleges,” she added. “A system of credit that could be redeployed to mete out ambitions for flexibility and to streng바카라사이트n lifelong learning.”
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