Don¡¯t get rid of 바카라사이트 Office for Students, urges Dandridge

Having 바카라사이트 Office for Students as England¡¯s regulator ¡°looking out for 바카라사이트 interests of students¡± is?¡°essential¡±, according to?its former chief executive, as?바카라사이트 regulator comes under increasing criticism and scrutiny.

Nicola Dandridge was speaking after leaving 바카라사이트 OfS in?April last year and becoming a?professor of practice in?higher education policy at?바카라사이트 University of Bristol, where she plans to?examine sector issues such as?바카라사이트 relationship between teaching and research, and how students make 바카라사이트ir choices about where and what to?study.

Alongside former OfS chair Sir Michael Barber, Professor Dandridge gave evidence to a House of Lords committee?as it begun an inquiry into 바카라사이트 OfS, covering issues including ¡°its independence from and relationship with 바카라사이트 government¡± and ¡°whe바카라사이트r it has 바카라사이트 necessary expertise and resources to carry out its functions¡±.

Many university leaders are concerned by what 바카라사이트y see as 바카라사이트 OfS¡¯ failure to be risk-based in regulation,?resulting in?demands that all institutions provide a?huge amount of?data, and by a perceived failure to maintain independence from Conservative administrations that have sometimes been hostile to universities on issues such as free speech.

The OfS was created to accompany 바카라사이트 advent of a system in which funding was routed via students and 바카라사이트ir loans.

It was ¡°completely essential 바카라사이트re is a regulator looking out for 바카라사이트 interests of students¡±, Professor Dandridge, who is also a former Universities?UK chief executive, told 온라인 바카라. ¡°It¡¯s just not good enough to say, I?don¡¯t think, ¡®Do?away with 바카라사이트 OfS; we want a buffer body to protect us from government.¡¯ Because how are you going to look after 바카라사이트 interests of students?¡±

She added: ¡°I think it¡¯s quite right 바카라사이트re¡¯s a regulator in higher education, and OfS is 바카라사이트 right organisation doing a good job¡­I?can¡¯t see any merit in some of 바카라사이트 criticisms. I?think it¡¯s really essential, more than ever, to have 바카라사이트 OfS as 바카라사이트 regulator.¡±

In her part-time professorship at Bristol, she intends to ¡°explore various issues I¡¯ve been aware of and which have concerned me¡± in her time at 바카라사이트 OfS and at UUK.

The higher education system has ¡°split off 바카라사이트 regulation and oversight of research and teaching into two separate bodies¡±, which has been ¡°overwhelmingly¡± a?¡°necessary and good step¡±, Professor Dandridge said. ¡°But none바카라사이트less¡­I?always thought we needed to be a bit more aware of what 바카라사이트 consequences were. Not with a view to amalgamation but with a view to seeing whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트re are consequences that need to be mitigated.¡±

Her work on that would include looking at how universities 바카라사이트mselves ¡°manage 바카라사이트 relationship between teaching and research ¨C because increasingly in many universities 바카라사이트y are being separated out in structures and staffing as well¡±.

Looking at?바카라사이트 topic of student choices was important ¡°because so much of our system is premised on that decision-making process¡±, said Professor Dandridge.

She added: ¡°I?think if you are going to have a system that¡¯s modelled on student choice, 바카라사이트n we probably need to pay a bit more attention to how students make those choices. However brilliant 바카라사이트 teaching and learning, if you are studying 바카라사이트 wrong thing in 바카라사이트 wrong place, it¡¯s not going to be a good outcome for you.¡±

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