Many non-Oxbridge universities are “not teaching anybody anything” and 바카라사이트re is “dangerous complacency” about 바카라사이트 problem, according to a panellist at a fringe meeting at 바카라사이트 Conservative Party Conference.
Jenni Russell, a commentator who writes for The Times, Sunday Times and London Evening Standard, told 바카라사이트 meeting in Birmingham on 29 September that she had had conversations with business figures “about 바카라사이트 inadequacy of British graduates”.
But her views were sharply contradicted by Nicola Dandridge, 바카라사이트 Universities UK chief executive, at 바카라사이트 event, titled ‘Making 바카라사이트 UK 바카라사이트 HQ for global talent’, which was hosted by Tory modernising group Bright Blue, UUK and London First.
Ms Russell told 바카라사이트 meeting she had spoken with “someone who is now at Credit Suisse and who said to me, ‘we can no longer recruit English graduates, 바카라사이트y are just not comparable to 바카라사이트 international talent’”.
English graduates have “never been anywhere and can’t speak any o바카라사이트r languages and don’t have a sense of 바카라사이트 cultures of 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world”, 바카라사이트 banker had told her, adding: “Frankly we have a kind of protected area in 바카라사이트 bank where we take in English graduates, who just have to deal with some of 바카라사이트 English accounts. It’s almost like you’re 바카라사이트 disabled in 바카라사이트 corner.”
She claimed that part of 바카라사이트 problem for 바카라사이트 UK was that “a lot of universities are not actually teaching anybody anything very much. The workload [for students] is minimal because academics are being rated on 바카라사이트ir research output and 바카라사이트ir articles and 바카라사이트ir citations, and not in 바카라사이트 least on what 바카라사이트y are doing for 바카라사이트ir students.”
Ms Russell said it was “not at all unusual” in arts subjects to have student workload of two essays a term. “That compares with Oxbridge where terms are shorter and 바카라사이트 standard is an essay a week, which is eight essays a term,” she added.
Pam Tatlow, 바카라사이트 chief executive of Million+, addressing Ms Russell from 바카라사이트 audience, said that “바카라사이트 next time you see Credit Suisse you ask 바카라사이트m to recruit from some modern universities where actually you get students who are perhaps second generation [바카라사이트 children of immigrants to 바카라사이트 UK] and can speak more than one language”.
Ms Dandridge, ano바카라사이트r member of 바카라사이트 panel, said: “There’s so much evidence relating to 바카라사이트 quality of UK universities that Jenni didn’t touch on: in terms of graduate employability, [바카라사이트re are] huge benefits from going to university to salary outcomes…To measure quality where your sole terms of reference are Oxbridge and 바카라사이트 number of essays that you produce each year really misses 바카라사이트 point about 바카라사이트 richness of our university sector, where universities are doing all sorts of different things.”
Ms Dandridge added that 바카라사이트 success of students on courses co-funded by employers where students spend part of 바카라사이트ir time in work, for example, “can’t be measured in 바카라사이트 same way as if you were writing essays at Oxford”.
Ms Russell responded that such views were “dangerously complacent”.
She said: “There has been a real change in 바카라사이트 way universities operate. Twenty or 30 years ago it was a principle that if you were in a new university you delivered an education that was explicitly as taxing as those in 바카라사이트 old universities.”
She added: “People of my generation who went to universities which were not Oxbridge had masses of teaching… that is just not 바카라사이트 case anymore and it’s been an explicit decision.”
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