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 | Apr 16, 2018 | CDBU Updates, News round-up
Academic staff have voted to accept an offer to reopen negotiations with employers, and the position of the OU’s vice-chancellor finally becomes untenable Student nurses face financial hardship over loan error, says nursing body The Guardian, 16/04/2018,...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 31, 2018 | CDBU Updates, News round-up, Office for Students
The pensions dispute rumbles on, the OfS admits to making a mistake over the Toby Young appointment, and the OU vice-chancellor faces a vote of no confidence Universities give out unconditional offers like candy, say head teachers The Times, 31/03/2018,...
by CDBU Admin | Mar 2, 2018 | News round-up, Pensions, Uncategorized
The universities minister says that students should be compensated for missed teaching time as a result of the pensions strike, and a report says that there should have been greater scrutiny in the appointment of Toby Young to the board of the Office for Students...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 16, 2018 | CDBU Updates, News round-up, University funding
Vice-chancellors have been sharing their concerns that some universities may face insolvency, while Robert Halfon MP says too many students are studying academic degrees Opportunity and risk: universities prepare for an uncertain future The Guardian,...
