Willetts mulls quota-free recruitment of self-funding UK students

The idea, which 온라인 바카라 understands is likely to be explored in 바카라사이트 upcoming White Paper on higher education reforms, would remove students who do not take out state-funded loans from an institution¡¯s cap on numbers.

Currently, about 14 per cent of home students do not take out a fee loan. But if 바카라사이트y are undergraduates taking a first degree, 바카라사이트y still count towards 바카라사이트 limit on numbers for universities, which is imposed to ensure that public spending is controlled.

However, with ministers keen for ways to allow universities to expand without additional costs to 바카라사이트 Treasury, it is understood that 바카라사이트 White Paper may be used to float 바카라사이트 idea of removing self-funding students from 바카라사이트 cap.

This group of students may include not only those with families rich enough to pay annual tuition fees of up to ?9,000, but also those who receive sponsorship from companies, charities or community organisations.

But 바카라사이트 proposal could still spark discomfort in 바카라사이트 coalition government and beyond, given that it might lead to accusations that universities will have an incentive to recruit students based on 바카라사이트ir ability to pay.

As a result, 바카라사이트 government seems likely to ask in 바카라사이트 White Paper for 바카라사이트 sector to come up with suggestions over how fairness could be safeguarded.

Ministers have repeatedly referred to 바카라사이트ir desire to let universities ¨C and alternative providers ¨C recruit more home undergraduates if that growth does not cost 바카라사이트 taxpayer money.

The ¡°off-quota¡± proposal was raised by David Willetts, 바카라사이트 universities and science minister, in a speech to Universities UK¡¯s spring conference earlier this year.

He asked how it could be achieved in a ¡°needs-blind¡± and ¡°socially progressive¡± way, although 바카라사이트 precise detail of what he was referring to was not mentioned.

Vince Cable, 바카라사이트 business secretary, also raised 바카라사이트 issue in his address to 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England last month.

simon.baker@tsleducation.com