by Becca Bashford | May 29, 2020 | Academic freedom, Admissions, Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Further education, Government, In the News, Marketisation, National Union of Students, News round-up, Opinion, Scotland, Uncategorized, University funding, University governance, Wales, Widening access, Workplace stress
This week, universities continued to come to grips with the prospect of shifting online, raising questions about quality and accessibility. CDBU also expressed their support for disabled students who feel left behind amid Covid-19 chaos, and we have issued a call for...
by Becca Bashford | May 15, 2020 | Admissions, Casual staff, Covid-19, Further education, Government, In the News, Marketisation, National Union of Students, News round-up, Scotland, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, University governance
The government’s rejection of the multi-billion pound bailout needed to save universities has raised serious concerns for the future of higher education. Voluntary severance schemes have been introduced, graduate prospects look bleak, and the shift to online...
by Becca Bashford | May 14, 2020 | Covid-19, Government, In the News, Marketisation, Opinion, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, University governance
“If we wish to change the model, to have higher education serve the public, students and academics, and not as a Ponzi scheme floated on a bubble of student fees, we need to act now”, argues John Holmwood. The financial crisis facing the higher education...
by Becca Bashford | May 1, 2020 | Admissions, Boris Johnson, Casual staff, CDBU Updates, Covid-19, Further education, Government, Guest blog, In the News, Marketisation, National Union of Students, News round-up, Opinion, Uncategorized, Universities UK, University funding, University governance, Vice-chancellor pay
As Covid-19 continues to inflict damage across the higher education sector and with the plea for a financial bailout falling on deaf ears, students and staff have come out in full force to highlight “inhumane” management practices and responses to the...
by CDBU Admin | Apr 20, 2020 | Academic freedom, Free speech, Opinion, Teaching Excellence Framework, TEF, Uncategorized, University governance
Liz Morrish had an unblemished record of 30 years in academia without so much as a late library book to her name. That all changed when she publicly voiced her opinions on the terrible toll managerialism was having on academics’ mental health – and she found herself...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 23, 2020 | Book review, Uncategorized, University governance
Professor David Midgley concludes his discussion of The Governance of British Higher Education by Michael Shattock and Aniko Horvath Like other analysts of the current situation, Shattock and Horvath bring out very clearly the deleterious effects of...
