by CDBU Admin | Aug 21, 2016 | Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act
No. 7 in a series of guest posts by G. R. Evans ‘The world of education is not just boxed up into different sections; it is linear’, protested Neil Carmichael in the Second Reading debate. Several speakers drew attention to the move of the ‘teaching’ role of higher...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 16, 2016 | Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act
No. 6 in a series of guest posts by G. R. Evans The Higher Education and Research Bill applies only to England. Several speakers in the parliamentary debates so far have expressed concerns about the consequences of the proposed changes for the reputation of UKHE as a...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 14, 2016 | Government, Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act
No. 5 in a series of guest posts by G. R. Evans One of the most significant regulatory changes introduced by the Bill is the decisive separation of research done by a research-active higher education provider in England from its ‘educational’ or teaching work. This...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 9, 2016 | Free speech, Government, Higher Education and Research Act, Uncategorized
No 4 in a series of Guest posts by G. R. Evans The problem-areas flagged up here are technical but they are also of fundamental importance to academics because they affect academic freedom and the institutional autonomy of providers of higher education. These are...
by CDBU Admin | Aug 5, 2016 | Grade inflation, Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act
No. 3 in a series of Guest posts by G. R. Evans One of the most controversial suggestions in the White Paper of May 16 is a change to the long-standing policy that on the rare occasion higher education providers get into difficulties the funding council will support...
