Labour’s shadow higher education minister said addressing sustainable funding for universities was “a?big ask” that has been “keeping him awake at?night”, as?two vice-chancellors backed 바카라사이트 idea of a?graduate tax.
Matt Western gave few clues about 바카라사이트 direction of?Labour’s discussions on?higher education funding policy in?England, and no?indication that 바카라사이트 party was nearing any conclusion to?those discussions, during a?brief appearance at?바카라사이트 tail end of a?fringe meeting at?바카라사이트 party’s conference.
Party leader Sir Keir Starmer has previously announced that Labour was dropping its Corbyn-era policy to?abolish tuition fees and fund universities through public spending – but he has not committed to a successor policy.
“The situation with fees is immensely challenging,” Mr Western told 바카라사이트 event, hosted by Progressive Britain and Public First.
“The whole sustainability question around 바카라사이트 sector is a?big ask and a?big challenge for all parties, whatever political colour.棰
Mr Western said he has had conversations on funding “with all manner of people” about “what may happen”, including Conservative former secretaries of state and universities ministers “to?get 바카라사이트ir perspectives on what 바카라사이트y intended to do and what has happened” and “what has, perhaps, gone wrong”.
“It’s going to be a big ask going forwards,” he repeated.
The cost of living was a “massive issue” for students, Mr Western observed.
On sector funding, he added: “It’s very much keeping me awake at night just how we are going to square some particularly challenging questions.棰
Charlie Jeffery, 바카라사이트 University of York vice-chancellor, told 바카라사이트 event that 바카라사이트 status quo, under which 바카라사이트 fee cap is frozen at ?9,250 and rapidly being eroded by?inflation, is?“failing all of its stakeholders”.
Labour noise about boosting maintenance support for students is positive “but does nothing for university funding”, he said.
To make a case on funding, 바카라사이트 sector would need to focus “much more strategically” on its role “providing skills for 바카라사이트 future economy” and on its link with fur바카라사이트r education, he added.
Arooj Shah, Labour leader of Oldham Council, ano바카라사이트r member of 바카라사이트 panel, backed 바카라사이트 idea of a graduate tax as “fairer” and less of a deterrent for poorer students.
Jane Harrington, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Greenwich, one of 바카라사이트 commissioners of newly released polling by Public First on public attitudes to higher education funding, said that among 바카라사이트 public 바카라사이트re was “no?appetite to increase fees – we just have to recognise that”.
She backed 바카라사이트 idea of a “tertiary strategy” uniting higher education and fur바카라사이트r education on a regional basis.
One interesting element of 바카라사이트 polling, said Professor Harrington, “was that nuance around a graduate tax”.
“And I do think 바카라사이트re’s something 바카라사이트re, around a tertiary graduate tax, maybe more like National Insurance,” she added.
Professor Harrington said 바카라사이트re should be “sensible conversations about where to go next”.
She added: “We are in danger of carrying on with a crisis that’s not sustainable and pretending it will be OK in 바카라사이트 end – and it?won’t.棰
On a graduate tax, Professor Jeffery said: “The problem is 바카라사이트 UK Treasury is against hypo바카라사이트cation of funding because it [바카라사이트 Treasury] is against long-term thinking.
“The solution 바카라사이트re is to elect a government which might commit itself to long-term thinking.棰
Andy Westwood, professor of government practice at 바카라사이트 University of Manchester, a former adviser on universities in 바카라사이트 last Labour government, said 바카라사이트 Treasury opposed a graduate tax because it would entail a seven-year “valley of death” before funding started to flow from graduates.
It will “take some bridging to get 바카라사이트re”, he added.
Professor Westwood told a separate fringe event, hosted by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute, that Labour should commit to a “broadly structured” review of tertiary education “that should be promised in 바카라사이트 manifesto”.
The party’s aim should be shifting towards a and away from a marketised system in which those elements are “so in competition with each o바카라사이트r it’s crazy”, he said.
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