by CDBU Admin | Jan 21, 2016 | Opinion, TEF
Opinion Piece by Joshua Forstenzer (Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow for the Public Benefit of Higher Education, University of Sheffield) The higher education Green Paper is a radical document. From its proposed rework of the higher education sector’s governance and...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 14, 2016 | CDBU Updates, Higher Education and Research Act
The Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) today submitted its response to the Green Paper “Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice”. We undertook this exercise in good faith and with good will...
by CDBU Admin | Dec 17, 2015 | Government, Higher Education and Research Act, Opinion
Opinion piece by Dorothy Bishop In my previous post, I queried the justification for the proposed new Teaching Excellence Framework. According to the Green Paper, research-intensive universities undervalue teaching, and students and employers are dissatisfied with the...
by CDBU Admin | Dec 7, 2015 | Opinion, TEF
*Opinion piece by Dorothy Bishop I spent Sunday reading the Green Paper “Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice”, a consultation document that outlines radical plans to change how universities are evaluated and...
by CDBU Admin | Dec 2, 2015 | Government, Higher Education and Research Act, Marketisation, Opinion
Opinion piece by Roger Brown Background The focus of the Green Paper is not just on students and teaching: it also envisages a situation where there will be more competition among providers of higher education, and new entrants into the system: We hope providers...