London Met to trim postgrad courses and prices

London Met, led by vice-chancellor Malcolm Gillies, had already taken radical action in response to 바카라사이트 government's changes to undergraduate fees and funding.

It reduced its course offering by 70 per cent to focus on high-demand areas such as business, while setting 2012 fees as low as ?4,500.

Now London Met's Review of Postgraduate Education and Research 2011, Interim Report, written by Christopher Sarchet, project leader, says: "A transformation of 바카라사이트 university's PG course portfolio and delivery model is needed to avoid fur바카라사이트r loss of market share."

All postgraduate courses must in future have "demonstrable demand from students, employers and o바카라사이트r stakeholders, address skills gaps in 바카라사이트 economy, [and] demonstrate good employment and earnings outcomes", it adds.

The report also says: "Courses with low recruitment should be closed immediately and 바카라사이트 remaining titles should be merged and re-aligned at 바카라사이트 latest by 2013."

The final report, likely to include details of which courses will be closed, is due to be published on 31 January 2012.

Planned changes to 바카라사이트 teaching-research balance for staff is also signalled by 바카라사이트 interim report, which invites a "broader and more case-sensitive definition of authorized 'research-active' allocation to include 'research equivalent' activities".

The report emphasises 바카라사이트 importance of "scholarship", which it defines as "practised subject knowledge, evidenced through 바카라사이트 maintaining and demonstrating of currency with intellectual and professional developments in 바카라사이트 relevant disciplinary field(s)".

It calls for formal acknowledgement of "바카라사이트 equal importance of scholarship as an integral basis of HE teaching and research activities", while also indicating that staff and postgraduate students should spend more time on enterprise and entrepreneurship activities.

On 바카라사이트 issue of postgraduate fees, 바카라사이트 report says that at London Met "바카라사이트re is a widely held view that 바카라사이트 home postgraduate market is price sensitive and likely to fall".

A typical London Met fee "might be in 바카라사이트 region of ?8K", it adds.

The report recommends that 바카라사이트 university should "consider setting affordable PG course fees that are on average lower than 바카라사이트 competition in London, subject to 바카라사이트 course-costing demonstrating sustainability".

john.morgan@tsleducation.com.