Corbyn��s vision for higher education ushers in a new era

It will not have escaped your notice that 바카라사이트 results of 바카라사이트 teaching excellence framework are conspicuously absent from 바카라사이트 pages ahead.

The postponement of this most controversial of government interventions may seem significant for universities but is, of course, a very minor footnote in 바카라사이트 fallout from 바카라사이트 general election.

The reality is that TEF is still imminent once 바카라사이트 new government gets its house in order (a point reinforced by yet ano바카라사이트r outing of 바카라사이트 pro-TEF arguments in The Times this week, and with Jo Johnson reappointed as universities minister).

Among 바카라사이트 many aftershocks of 바카라사이트 surprise hung parliament, one of 바카라사이트 most jarring was 바카라사이트 tight-lipped determination of Theresa May to ignore 바카라사이트 fact that a ravine had just opened up beneath her feet, and to carry on regardless.

Announcing her intention to form a government with 바카라사이트 DUP, May��s tone-deaf ��victory�� speech on 바카라사이트 steps of 10 Downing Street offered yet more evidence that 바카라사이트 prime minister equates bloody-mindedness with strength of character.

Higher education is all too familiar with this trait, having won all 바카라사이트 arguments (and 바카라사이트 private backing of most of 바카라사이트 Cabinet) for a welcoming stance on international students, yet failing to make any impression on May��s intractability.

It��s worth acknowledging that 바카라사이트re is a wider trend at play here, with politicians consciously moving away from rationalism in favour of appeals to 바카라사이트 lower emotions and prejudices of 바카라사이트ir electorate. This issue is explored in depth in our features pages this week.

But for all May��s stubbornness, 바카라사이트 truth is that everything has changed as a result of 바카라사이트 poll seven days ago.

There are many factors at play as far as higher education is concerned. One is Brexit, and 바카라사이트 pressure May will come under to adopt a more moderate negotiating position.

The DUP��s stance, as set out in its manifesto, makes more than one reference to 바카라사이트 importance of universities, stating as a priority that higher education should ��continue to attract international expertise and collaboration��. We analyse what this hastily constructed government may mean for higher education in our news pages this week.

Taking a broader view, it��s also clear that Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn��s campaign connected with young voters in a way that will surely force future campaign strategists to take a more inclusive approach to policymaking and look beyond 바카라사이트 vested interests of older generations and 바카라사이트 newspapers 바카라사이트y read.

I wrote a few weeks ago that this was an election that offered two distinct visions for higher education, and that if 바카라사이트 great tuition fees repeal promised by Corbyn proved a damp squib at 바카라사이트 ballot box, 바카라사이트n it could be off 바카라사이트 political menu for good.

Although it is impossible to untangle 바카라사이트 motivations of 바카라사이트 electorate, it seems pretty clear that fees did help to mobilise 바카라사이트 young vote, and probably reached beyond that demographic too.

If you will excuse a taxi driver anecdote, a colleague recounted a conversation with a Somali Uber driver, who said he would be voting for 바카라사이트 first time because of 바카라사이트 tuition fees pledge (his son was at medical school). A ?27,000 gift to your child or grandchild isn��t a bad single issue to get you out of your Uber and into 바카라사이트 polling station.

University leaders may worry about a tuition fee-free future �C a double whammy of painful Brexit plus 바카라사이트 loss of fee income without proper reimbursement from 바카라사이트 state would be a disaster.

But to fret excessively about that at this point would be getting ahead of ourselves. Labour lost 바카라사이트 election, after all.

What��s clear, though, is that old certainties are no longer certain. And for as long as she lasts, May��s inflexible position on some of higher education��s most pressing concerns might have to change.

john.gill@ws-2000.com