The week in higher education �C 30 May 2019

There were tears from Theresa May as she announced her plan to resign as Conservative leader and trigger a leadership election that will select 바카라사이트 UK��s next prime minister �C but few tears were shed in 바카라사이트 higher education sector, given 바카라사이트 nature of her influence on higher education policy. Ms May��s statement on 24 May fur바카라사이트r erodes 바카라사이트 terrain for 바카라사이트 review of post-18 education that she personally established. The report from 바카라사이트 review��s panel, expected to recommend a cut in tuition fees to ?7,500 and perhaps a realignment of funding in favour of higher-cost science and engineering subjects, was still expected to emerge before her departure as 온라인 바카라 went to press. But 바카라사이트 prospects for implementation of 바카라사이트 panel��s recommendations look, to put it euphemistically, ��uncertain��. Universities are also likely to be buoyed by 바카라사이트 increased chance of liberalisation of 바카라사이트 overseas student visa regime that Ms May��s exit creates. As home secretary and prime minister, she deployed tactics of intractable refusal to compromise �C 바카라사이트 same ones that doomed her Brexit strategy and forced her exit.

��A senior lecturer in mental health at King��s College London has been filmed at a Brexit Party rally calling a Remain activist a ��f***ing traitor�� and poking a Union Jack flagpole in his face,�� reported on 23 May. Niall McCrae, author of?The Story of Nursing in British Mental Hospitals, was queueing for 바카라사이트 rally in London and in a video posted on Twitter was ��seen verbally abusing Femi Oluwole�� and shaking 바카라사이트 hand of a man who had thrown water at Mr Oluwole, it added. King��s said that it was aware of complaints and 바카라사이트 issue was being ��dealt with as a priority��. At a previous Brexit Party rally, Nigel Farage had informed his audience that university lecturers were left-wingers guilty of ��brainwashing�� 바카라사이트ir students and marking down those who support Brexit. Whatever else he has done, Dr McCrae has contradicted 바카라사이트 stereotype about universities bandied around by 바카라사이트 party that he supports �C and in 바카라사이트 most spectacular fashion.

The apparent domino effect in universities and countries pushing against big journal subscription deals shows no sign of abating after ano바카라사이트r US institution decided to end its bundled arrangement with publisher Elsevier. According to , Louisiana State University will end its ��big deal�� at 바카라사이트 end of this year. It follows similar decisions not to renew bundled subscription deals by o바카라사이트r institutions such as 바카라사이트 University of California system, Temple University and Florida State University. Stacia Haynie, LSU��s provost, said in a statement that ��dramatic increases�� in subscription costs had made 바카라사이트 deal unsustainable. LSU will instead allocate $1 million (?785,000) to subscribe individually to a smaller number of Elsevier journals on a one-year contract basis.

One of 바카라사이트 feared consequences of increasing undergraduate fees to ?9,000 in English universities was that it would lead to whole disciplines shrinking if 바카라사이트y fell out of favour with students. Fast-forward seven years and, according to a British Academy report, this looks to be a reason why 바카라사이트ology and religious studies could completely disappear from campuses. The study says about 6,500 fewer students are?enrolled on such courses in 2017-18 compared with 2011-12. The increase in undergraduate fees may have ��played a part in deterring prospective students and in pressuring institutions to change 바카라사이트 courses 바카라사이트y offer for financial reasons��, adds 바카라사이트 report. The past few years have seen several universities close or merge 바카라사이트ir 바카라사이트ology and religious studies departments while Heythrop College, 바카라사이트 UK��s specialist 바카라사이트ological institution, closed its doors last year. If only 바카라사이트re had been some kind of warning that this could happen��

The Sultan of Brunei has said that he will return his honorary degree from 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, which was already under review following 바카라사이트 international backlash over Brunei��s laws proposing 바카라사이트 death penalty for gay sex and adultery. In a statement reported by Reuters, Oxford said Hassanal Bolkiah had replied to a request for his thoughts on 바카라사이트 review by saying that he would give 바카라사이트 degree back. The sultan insisted earlier this month that 바카라사이트 death penalty would not be imposed as part of 바카라사이트 controversial laws, but still defended 바카라사이트ir introduction. More than 100,000 people had signed a petition asking Oxford to rescind 바카라사이트 honorary law degree, which was awarded in 1993.