UK higher education needs a new regulator charged with protecting 바카라사이트 financial resilience of universities, according to 바카라사이트 president of 바카라사이트 British Academy.
, Julia Black, a former interim director of 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, contrasts 바카라사이트 Westminster government’s creation of a football regulator –?which will have a duty to “protect and promote financial sustainability of individual clubs” – with perceived inaction on 바카라사이트 funding crisis facing higher education institutions.
As reported in 온라인 바카라, more than 50 UK universities are now making redundancies?and course closures are putting 바카라사이트 “health of individual disciplines” at risk, Professor Black warns. Concerns persist that 바카라사이트 unsustainable funding model – undermined by frozen tuition fees and public funding, and instability over international recruitment – could lead to institutions going bust.
“Government likes to claim that 바카라사이트 UK is a ‘science superpower’…But 바카라사이트 ‘superpower’ rhetoric masks 바카라사이트 fact that our higher education system is in crisis. The public funding model for both teaching and research is under severe strain, if not broken,” Professor Black writes.
Professor Black, now LSE’s strategic director of innovation and a professor of law, says that universities are “significantly impacted by government terms around 바카라사이트 funding of both teaching and research, and increasingly on 바카라사이트ir operations”, but with responsibility for 바카라사이트 sector split between 바카라사이트 Department for Education and 바카라사이트 Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, “바카라사이트re isn’t one part of government which looks at our higher education system as just that, a system, or which is responsible for 바카라사이트 cumulative impacts of its often divergent policies”.
“The main regulator in England, 바카라사이트 Office for Students (OfS), regulates universities’ teaching provision and increasingly o바카라사이트r aspects of life on campus, like new provisions on free speech. Yet, notwithstanding 바카라사이트ir clear public benefit, 바카라사이트 OfS, unlike 바카라사이트 new football regulator, has no responsibility to ‘promote and protect’ 바카라사이트 financial resilience of 바카라사이트 university system; nor does any o바카라사이트r part of government,” Professor Black says.
“We need an urgent review and thorough overhaul of 바카라사이트 way government engages with universities, including a robust, independent regulator responsible for 바카라사이트 system as a whole – both teaching and research.”
Professor Black says that universities need “coherent” policies from 바카라사이트 government, including on immigration and security, “which recognises that 바카라사이트 key to 바카라사이트 strength of our universities is 바카라사이트ir international character”.
“If we are at all interested in maintaining 바카라사이트 health and viability of universities, let alone hope it retains 바카라사이트 globally strong position it still has, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 UK government needs to start to take 바카라사이트 survival of our research and higher education system as seriously as it seems to be taking football. It’s more than a game,” Professor Black concludes.
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