by CDBU Admin | Aug 9, 2019 | Admissions, Augar Review, Casual staff, Government, News round-up, Uncategorized, Unconditional offers, University funding, Wales
Augar’s recommendation of cuts to tuition fees could be devastating unless government makes up the shortfall, says a House of Lords committee – and the OfS could begin fining universities if they carry on making unconditional offers Tuition fees cut could be...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 30, 2019 | Admissions, Augar Review, Book review, Casual staff, Grade inflation, Higher Education and Research Act, Marketisation, Office for Students, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
Professor David Midgley reviews English Universities in Crisis: Markets without Competition, by Jefferson Frank, Norman Gowar and Michael Naef The policy objectives against which this book measures the effectiveness of the current system for funding and regulating...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 6, 2018 | Casual staff, Opinion, Uncategorized
A Freedom of Information request from the University and College Union reveals a reluctance by universities to share information about their use of teaching staff on hourly contracts Casual staff have always played an important role in university teaching. Many...
by CDBU Admin | Nov 13, 2014 | Casual staff, Opinion, TEF
Opinion piece by Dorothy Bishop, 13 November 2014 Universities have become obsessed with competition: it is no longer enough to do well; you have to demonstrate you are better than the rest. And to do that, you need some kind of metric. Organisations have grown up to...
