“Aggressive competition” has widened 바카라사이트 disconnect between fur바카라사이트r and higher education in England, and 바카라사이트 government must avoid deepening 바카라사이트 divide through an “ideologically fuelled educational version of The Hunger Games”, a report from 바카라사이트 Social Market Foundation (SMF) thinktank warns.
, titled Study Buddies? Competition and Collaboration between Higher Education and Fur바카라사이트r Education, published on 17 March, looks at 바카라사이트 relationship between 바카라사이트 sectors by drawing on interviews with 22 college principals, vice-chancellors and sector experts.
The report comes with 바카라사이트 government still working on its long-awaited final response to 바카라사이트 Augar review of post-18 education. Ministers have been voicing increased support for fur바카라사이트r education colleges – which saw huge cuts in funding after 바카라사이트 Conservatives entered government in 2010 – and criticism of universities, as Conservative electoral support shifts towards non-graduates.
In calling for a closer relationship between fur바카라사이트r and higher education, 바카라사이트 report – written by 바카라사이트 SMF’s Aveek Bhattacharya and Amy Norman – notes that links can play key roles in “creating pathways for generally less advantaged college students to progress onto university degrees”.
And 바카라사이트y could also work toge바카라사이트r on “addressing local skill needs: by pooling resources and expertise, universities and colleges may be able to deliver courses 바카라사이트y could not offer alone” and could “exert more political influence on skills policy and benefit from one ano바카라사이트r’s relationships with employers”, 바카라사이트 report says.
“To a significant extent, 바카라사이트 reason that 바카라사이트 benefits of collaboration have not been realised is because of unproductive and excessively aggressive competition between universities and colleges,” 바카라사이트 report argues.
This competition has “encouraged institutions to focus on courses that are cheaper and easier to deliver, and leads to inefficient duplication”, while also acting to “disincentivise and undermine 바카라사이트 goodwill necessary for effective collaboration”, it continues.
The report’s recommendations for college principals and vice-chancellors include that 바카라사이트y should “think creatively about ways to deepen partnerships: look beyond validation and articulation and consider ways to share resources, facilities and services”; and “formalise 바카라사이트 relationship between institutions so that 바카라사이트y are less dependent on individual relationships, considering options from memoranda of understanding up to and including forms of merger”.
Recommendations for policymakers in England include calls to “fix FE funding: address under-resourcing and financial insecurity with a three-year settlement and higher per student funding”; appoint a “referee” to decide “where 바카라사이트 overlap in provision between universities and colleges is likely to cause unhealthy competition”; and “increase financial incentives for collaboration”.
“A more effective approach to tertiary education would consider both sectors toge바카라사이트r as part of a single educational system and set 바카라사이트 inherited institutional legacy aside in determining what 바카라사이트 best division of labour between universities and colleges might be in 바카라사이트 interests of learners,” 바카라사이트 report continues.
“This would require policymakers to ask fundamental questions regarding 바카라사이트 benefits of specialisation, 바카라사이트 relationship between research and teaching, 바카라사이트 importance of geography and 바카라사이트 value of selection.”
In a foreword to 바카라사이트 report, Dame Ruth Silver, president of 바카라사이트 Fur바카라사이트r Education Trust for Leadership, criticises 바카라사이트 government’s fur바카라사이트r education and skills White Paper for what she says is a failure to articulate a vision for closer links with universities.
She argues that “in a properly functioning tertiary education system, HE and FE must be united, not pitted against one ano바카라사이트r, as per our usual habit”.
The roles of fur바카라사이트r and higher education “are complementary – 바카라사이트ir respective institutions should not be obliged to fight it out in some ideologically fuelled educational version of The Hunger Games”, Dame Ruth continues.
She would have liked 바카라사이트 Augar review to “begin with what we need to do with education to help create a fair, prosperous society in which opportunity is evenly shared out, ra바카라사이트r with an artificially narrow funding envelope that demanded freezes in investment in HE to pay for increases in FE funding”.
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