by CDBU Admin | Aug 16, 2018 | Admissions, Marketisation, Part-time students, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding
The fall in applications has led to fierce competition between universities, a drop in income and an uncertain future for both students and staff, argues Professor GR Evans The A-level results are out. Applicants are getting to grips with fending for themselves in...
by CDBU Admin | Jul 21, 2018 | Academic freedom, Guest blog, Marketisation, Office for Students, Tuition fees, University funding
Guest post by Prof G.R.Evans In the last few years there have been radical changes in the way English higher education is funded and regulated. That has had negative consequences not only for students but also at the receiving end of funding, where higher education...
by CDBU Admin | Jun 11, 2018 | Marketisation, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding
Media coverage of a recent student survey suggested higher education was poor value for money. But, asks Professor David Midgley, what does ‘value for money’ actually mean to students? The announcement of the 2018 Student Academic Experience Survey (SAES) by the...
by CDBU Admin | May 22, 2018 | Government, Guest blog, Marketisation, Uncategorized
Professor Judith Marquand has just published Democrats, Authoritarians and the Bologna Process: Universities in Germany, Russia, England and Wales. Here she explains what the Bologna Process has meant in different countries When I told the principal of an Oxford...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 12, 2018 | Government, Marketisation, Uncategorized
Professor GR Evans finds much that is self-justifying and sometimes misleading in a new book by former universities and science minister David Willetts David Willetts defends himself more than once about the purpose of this book. He dismisses the possibility that it...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 3, 2018 | Government, Marketisation, Press Releases
The Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) has warned of the dangers posed to higher education by opening the sector to private providers without adequate scrutiny. There is a real risk, it says, that the loosening of controls proposed by government...
