by CDBU Admin | Feb 19, 2018 | Press Releases, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding
Press release: 18 February, 2018 The Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) welcomes the government announcement of a review into university funding. We hope the review will be far-ranging and go back to first principles rather than just tinker with...
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 | Dec 15, 2017 | Office for Students, Uncategorized
A consultation on the regulatory approach of the Office for Students asks about the approach it should take to student contracts. Gill Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge, looks at how the situation...
by CDBU Admin | Dec 11, 2017 | Marketisation, REF, TEF, Uncategorized
Stories about vice-chancellors’ large salaries have led people to ask whether universities provide value for money. We should begin by tackling the question of how we meet infrastructure costs, argues Gill Evans, emeritus professor of medieval theology and...
by CDBU Admin | Jun 23, 2017 | TEF, Uncategorized
Opinion piece by Dorothy Bishop The publication of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) results this week was greeted with predictable glee by sections of the media. The Times was delighted to report that “The LSE, Southampton and Liverpool, all members of...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 6, 2017 | TEF, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding
Opinion piece by G. R. Evans On April 4 the Higher Education and Research Bill left the Lords for the Commons after its Third Reading and on the same day the Technical and Further Education Bill also went back to the Commons with some Lords’ amendments. The following...
