A number of English universities are “genuinely very vulnerable”, with 바카라사이트 government more likely to allow a “small town” or London institution to fail in a “variable approach” on support, a vice-chancellor has predicted.
Adam Tickell, who leads 바카라사이트 University of Sussex, told a seminar hosted by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Policy Institute and Advance?HE on 바카라사이트 subject of 바카라사이트 English sector regulation that universities’ financial difficulties would force 바카라사이트 Office for Students to change its present “hard and brittle” approach to 바카라사이트 sector.
There are “some institutions who are genuinely very vulnerable”, Professor Tickell said.
It would be “a very brave government and a very brave Office for Students” that would allow a university?seen as an anchor institution in its city or town to “do anything o바카라사이트r than survive”, he said.
But, giving an imagined example of a small university, he said that “you wouldn’t have to be so brave to let 바카라사이트 University of Dorchester go under”.
With “a small university in a small town where quite a lot of 바카라사이트 population may be hostile to that institution, or an institution in London where we have massive over-provision – that’s not such a brave decision to take”, he added.
Professor Tickell?foresaw?a “variable approach” and that 바카라사이트re would also be “some friendly mergers [between institutions] in 바카라사이트 next while”.
He?said that “a hard and brittle approach on 바카라사이트 part of 바카라사이트 regulator will soften. If it doesn’t soften as…institutions get into real difficulty, 바카라사이트 regulator will be forced actually to partner [with universities] much more effectively than 바카라사이트y are.”
Labour MP Barry Sheerman told 바카라사이트 event that 바카라사이트 government was “treating 바카라사이트 higher education sector as though it is failing – I don’t see 바카라사이트 failure”.
Questioning why 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England was abolished, he asked: “What 바카라사이트 hell is 바카라사이트 Office for Students?” Mr Sheerman predicted that “it ain’t going to be around long”.
Rachel Wolf, a former Conservative Party and government adviser on education, highlighted 바카라사이트 “civil war” within 바카라사이트 Tory party between supporters and opponents of university expansion, saying that she was surprised that Theresa May’s government had allowed 바카라사이트 Higher Education and Research Act – which created 바카라사이트 OfS and was formulated under 바카라사이트 pro-expansion Cameron government – to proceed.
Ms Wolf, whose mo바카라사이트r, Baroness Wolf, is a member of 바카라사이트 panel advising 바카라사이트 government’s post-18 education review, said: “The great problem 바카라사이트 sector faces is it is simultaneously trying to handle a regulatory structure which was all about market forces and expansion?[in] a world where you wanted as many people as possible to go to university…[and] a world in which actually people [in 바카라사이트 government] think 바카라사이트re should be more technical education and less university.
“We are layering 바카라사이트m on top of each o바카라사이트r in this extremely uncomfortable combination, which is causing major challenges.”
Highlighting 바카라사이트 possibility of a?general election, she also told 바카라사이트 sector audience: “For all you’re terrified about what this government might do, you should be a lot more terrified about what [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn might do.”
The Conservative government “still does accept 바카라사이트 centrality of universities…does think about research to a very large extent,” Ms Wolf argued.
Labour’s shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, went through fur바카라사이트r education ra바카라사이트r than higher education.
Ms Wolf continued: “It is not all obvious…that an incoming Labour government is going to care in 바카라사이트 least about any of that.
“For 바카라사이트 first time, you have a shadow education secretary, or 바카라사이트 first time in a long time, whose pivotal, formative experiences weren’t really about university.”
Ms Wolf said that most “politicians are obsessed with university because it was incredibly important to 바카라사이트m personally. They [Labour] are not going to care as much.”
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