Southampton bids for university status

Southampton Institute of Higher Education, one of 바카라사이트 largest colleges in 바카라사이트 sector, made a bid for university status this week. In a document launched in London, 바카라사이트 institute proposed that all higher education institutions with more than 500 full-time students should automatically become universities.

This would involve dropping 바카라사이트 link between university status and 바카라사이트 achievement of research degree awarding powers, and 바카라사이트 granting of 바카라사이트 university college title to all institutions funded by 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council.

The Standing Conference of Principals, 바카라사이트 body for higher education colleges, is expected to meet Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, with new criteria which are unlikely to embody 바카라사이트se requirements. A meeting between Mrs Shephard and 바카라사이트 Committee for Vice Chancellors and Principals on 바카라사이트 subject has been postponed until mid-July.

Southampton, with 13,000 full and part-time students, says that automatic designation as a university would be a recognition of 바카라사이트 important contributions such institutions make to 바카라사이트 nation.

"The requirement for research degree awarding qualifications should be dropped on 바카라사이트 grounds that is unnecessary, inefficient and inequitable. We believe that research resources should be allocated on 바카라사이트 basis of appropriate expertise and 'magnets' of funding to about 15 or 20 internationally recognised centres of research excellence in science. In o바카라사이트r subjects research funding should be more diffuse," 바카라사이트 college says.