by Becca Bashford | Jan 22, 2021 | Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Further education, Government, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Opinion, REF, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
University and College Union will ballot its members to strike once again if they are forced to resume in-person teaching and return to unsafe campuses. Meanwhile, the government has published its highly anticipated response to the Augar review, and rent strikes rage...
by Becca Bashford | Nov 27, 2020 | Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Employability, Government, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Office for Students, Opinion, REF, Uncategorized, Universities UK, University governance
Sexual abuse at English and Welsh universities has been described as a “public scandal” after a report revealed that universities are systematically failing to address instances of assault and harassment, while another report commissioned by Universities...
by Becca Bashford | Oct 30, 2020 | CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Employability, Further education, Government, In the News, Marketisation, National Union of Students, News round-up, Opinion, REF, Scotland, Uncategorized, Wales
UCU have called for a judicial review of the government’s decision to ignore calls from its own Sage committee to move all non-essential teaching online and instead reopen campuses for face-to-face teaching. Sage advised the government that coronavirus outbreaks...
by Becca Bashford | Jul 10, 2020 | Admissions, Boris Johnson, Casual staff, Covid-19, Employability, Further education, Government, Humanities, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Opinion, REF, Scotland, Uncategorized
Ucas recently announced that UK universities had received a record number of applications over the lockdown period, despite growing concerns about the impacts of coronavirus on the higher education sector. Many universities are pushing ahead with devastating cuts, and...
by Becca Bashford | Apr 17, 2020 | Admissions, Covid-19, Government, In the News, Marketisation, News round-up, Opinion, REF, Scotland, Uncategorized, Universities UK, University funding
The repercussions of Covid-19 are being felt across the higher education sector as Universities UK warn that without support some institutions risk collapse, students go on rent strike, and the REF and TEF are postponed indefinitely Universities UK: state bailout...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 30, 2020 | National Student Survey, REF, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized
The REF is partly responsible for universities’ present ills, but if we get rid of it, we need to find an alternative model for allocating research funding. Norman Gowar, former principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, suggests a way forward As always it was...
