by CDBU Admin | Jun 21, 2019 | News round-up, Pensions, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Vice-chancellor pay
The University of Reading is the latest to find that overseas campuses aren’t as lucrative as hoped, while Oxford has been blessed with a gift of £150m to create a new centre for the humanities Reading halves Malaysia campus workforce after £27 million loss Times...
by CDBU Admin | Jun 5, 2019 | Augar Review, Further education, Part-time students, TEF, Tuition fees, Uncategorized
You might not have had the time to wade through last week’s 200-page Augar Review on higher education. Fortunately, David Midgley, emeritus professor of German literature and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, has written an essential guide to the...
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 28, 2019 | Augar Review, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding
The government’s attempt to marketise universities has gone woefully wrong, argues Professor Norman Gowar, former principal of Royal Holloway, University of London. It’s time for a radical rethink of student funding The long-awaited Augar Review was commissioned in...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 1, 2019 | News round-up, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Widening access
The long-awaited review of university tuition fees might not now be published until May – and vice-chancellors make some robust criticisms of the potential cost of subject-level TEF £7,500 tuition fees plan faces Brexit delay BBC, 01/03/2019, Sean Coughlan The...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 25, 2019 | TEF, Uncategorized
Professor DV Bishop outlines the multiple flaws in the TEF methodology In a previous post I questioned the rationale and validity of the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF). Here I document the technical and statistical problems with TEF. How...
