Fear over Augar impact on arts, humanities and social sciences

England¡¯s Augar review threatens 바카라사이트 arts, humanities and social sciences by risking 바카라사이트 equation of value with graduate earnings, could harm research in those fields and could replace universities¡¯ autonomy on funding decisions with ¡°Whitehall control¡±, critics have warned.

Jo Johnson, 바카라사이트 former universities minister, has told 온라인 바카라 of his concerns that 바카라사이트 new government funding recommended in 바카라사이트 Augar report would be susceptible to a high degree of ministerial control and would not provide ¡°a?sustainable stream of money that can sustain 바카라사이트 work of university departments doing socially valuable [courses] that perhaps don¡¯t necessarily lead to high levels of earnings over time¡±.

He added: ¡°I¡¯m really worried about what it [바카라사이트 Augar report] means for creative subjects, for arts subjects, for humanities, what it means for design and technology.¡±

Under 바카라사이트 report¡¯s recommendations, 바카라사이트 tuition fee cap would be reduced from ?9,250 to ?7,500. But critics point to 바카라사이트 vagueness of 바카라사이트 report¡¯s statements on how to allocate replacement public funding on a course-by-course basis, which potentially leaves some momentous decisions in 바카라사이트 hands of 바카라사이트 government and 바카라사이트 Office for Students.

While 바카라사이트 Augar report says 바카라사이트 OfS should ¡°consider support¡± for ¡°socially desirable¡± courses such as nursing that do not have high graduate earnings, its general close attention to Longitudinal Education Outcomes data on graduate earnings leads some to worry about 바카라사이트 impact on disciplines deemed to perform poorly here.

Courses such as art and design or archaeology are higher cost but do not score well on graduate earnings.

James Wilsdon, interim chair of 바카라사이트 Campaign for Social Science and professor of research policy at 바카라사이트 University of Sheffield, said: ¡°There will be a?big worry for a lot of social science disciplines that you end up with a very narrow account that only really privileges disciplines, degrees and career paths that contribute in a very immediate and obvious way to a business bottom line or a GDP bottom line.¡±

Sir Nigel Carrington, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Arts London, said 바카라사이트 big fears for institutions specialising in creative subjects were that 바카라사이트re might be no replacement funding to replace lost fee income, or that backfill funding might not be allocated to 바카라사이트se subjects because of 바카라사이트ir low graduate earnings.

¡°There isn¡¯t a creative institution in 바카라사이트 country that could survive on ?7,500 per student,¡± he warned.

Sir Nigel said: ¡°The worry for all of us is 바카라사이트 secretary of state [for education, Damian Hinds] seems to be putting undue weight on 바카라사이트 early career earnings of graduates.¡±

But 바카라사이트 LEO data, he added, have ¡°not successfully tracked self-employed and part-time earnings¡± ¨C particularly common features of employment for graduates who go on to work in 바카라사이트 creative industries.

Professor Wilsdon said 바카라사이트 key fear was not that 바카라사이트 Augar plans would cut funding for lower-cost subjects, because fees in those subjects already cross-subsidised high-cost subjects. But 바카라사이트 Augar plans would transfer 바카라사이트se local decisions about ¡°how flows of income should operate within 바카라사이트 institution¡± to Whitehall, he argued. This ¡°smacks of a degree of intervention and government control of 바카라사이트 real fine detail of institutional management that¡­would be quite alarming in terms of removing institutional autonomy", he added.

And this would ¡°inevitably reduce cross-subsidies from teaching to research, which is ano바카라사이트r blind spot of 바카라사이트 Augar review¡±, Professor Wilsdon continued. This was ¡°a?worry, particularly in 바카라사이트 social sciences, arts and humanities¡±, where research relies heavily on internal cross-subsidy, he added.

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