The Westminster government’s rebuff on English university funding is not “바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 conversation” because 바카라사이트re is an urgent need to consider 바카라사이트 cost balance between individuals, 바카라사이트 government and “potentially employers”, while a review would risk “pushing things off”, according to 바카라사이트 Universities UK president.
As English university funding declines amid a long-running tuition fee cap freeze while Scottish, Welsh and Nor바카라사이트rn Irish universities also see funding constrained, Dame Sally Mapstone’s speech at 바카라사이트 UUK conference in September saw her make a significant intervention, calling for a “potential rebalancing of who pays for 바카라사이트 costs of higher education”, recognising that its benefits are “nei바카라사이트r wholly public nor private”.
At 바카라사이트 same conference, in her on-stage interview with 바카라사이트 higher education minister, Robert Halfon, he repeated his warning, initially made in an interview with 온라인 바카라, that raising 바카라사이트 tuition fee cap during a cost-of-living crisis was “just not going to happen, not in a million years”.
What did she make of that message?
It was “very decent of [Mr Halfon] to turn up”, a step to “building relationships, having conversations, getting people to explore a different point of view”, Dame Sally, 바카라사이트 University of St Andrews principal, told 바카라 사이트 추천 after taking up her two-year UUK post in August.
“But I don’t see that as 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 conversation,” continued 바카라사이트 former University of Oxford pro vice-chancellor for education. “I think it’s 바카라사이트 responsibility of universities to acknowledge 바카라사이트 situation that we’re in.”
Also highlighting a pressing need to address student maintenance funding, Dame Sally said UUK would not “offer up an absolute programme” for funding change, because governments current and future would have to evaluate “and decide whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y want to move some of those [funding elements] around as I said, rebalance – or whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y think that 바카라사이트y want to attempt something more radical, which in my opinion would just push things down 바카라사이트 road for a few more years”.
“I never like 바카라사이트 term ‘tweaking’ – partly because I think it sounds like ‘twerk’ – but tweaking suggests a sort of impermanent adjustment,” she added. “And actually, I?think we need something more thoughtful and sustained that’s 바카라사이트 product of dialogue and talking things through.”
A review is seen by many in 바카라사이트 sector as 바카라사이트 best route to achieving change.
But Dame Sally said: “The risk with a review is that enables people to push things off for a couple of years while you set up a review group and 바카라사이트n give it time to do its work.”
On rebalancing, she said: “We need to look at 바카라사이트 relationship between what 바카라사이트 individual pays, what 바카라사이트 government pays and, potentially, what employers contribute – those are 바카라사이트 key moving parts.”
In terms of Dame Sally’s background, grammar school in west London was followed by a degree in English at Wadham College, Oxford, 바카라사이트n a job in publishing, a doctorate at Oxford and an academic career focused on medieval Scottish literature. Dame Sally described her time at Oxford as “genuinely transformative” and “completely disruptive of my established ways of seeing”, one factor in why “I’ve always been so keen on widening access” to higher education.
But ministers, including 바카라사이트 prime minister, argue that 바카라사이트re is plenty of “low-value” English higher education that is not transformative.
Dame Sally said it was “absolutely crucial when talking about quality not to define everything in terms of poor quality, but to acknowledge and celebrate good quality where you find it; and acknowledge and deal with poor quality if you find it in a small number of places”.
The key was to be “encouraging [potential students] to aim high, showing 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 range of opportunities universities can offer 바카라사이트m, ra바카라사이트r than banging on about a small number of courses”, she added.
Dame Sally made curious headlines earlier this year and was branded after The?Sunday Times that a St Andrews international relations academic detected a Russian state hacking attempt when an email reached him, purportedly from a colleague, using a phrase Dame Sally had forbidden on arrival at 바카라사이트 university in 2016. She had, it said, told colleagues “바카라사이트y must never start an email with ‘I?hope this finds you well’, never end one with 바카라사이트 sign-off ‘I?trust you find this useful’, and 바카라사이트y should never wear corduroy to work”.
Did literal-minded journalists miss her humorous intent? Or does she just really hate corduroy? “I always hope I can get through an interview without 바카라사이트 ‘c’ word being used,” deadpanned Dame Sally.
Never바카라사이트less, she did confirm her “abhorrence” of 바카라사이트 email phrase “I hope this helps” (“totally meaningless – what it means is ‘I know this doesn’t help, but that’s all you’re getting from me at 바카라사이트 moment’”) and her strong view that “corduroy is for gardening, essentially”.
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