by CDBU Admin | Sep 25, 2016 | Government, Guest blog, Marketisation
Guest blogpost by G. R. Evans Who ‘represents’ providers of UK higher education? Alex Proudfoot, the CEO of an organization called Independent Higher Education, was invited as a witness to the Committee evaluating the Higher Education and Research Bill....
by CDBU Admin | Jun 18, 2016 | Guest blog, Marketisation
Guest Post by Professor Timothy Ingold, University of Aberdeen We, staff and students of the University of Aberdeen, are angry. We are angry about the way our academic community and our commitment to education and scholarship have been eaten away by a corrosive regime...
by CDBU Admin | May 27, 2016 | Guest blog, Higher Education and Research Act
Guest post by Gill Evans, Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge History demonstrates a longstanding need for vigilance about the creeping powers of Secretaries of State and the enthusiasm of Governments for...
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 | Aug 16, 2015 | Opinion, REF, TEF
Opinion Piece by Marina Warner Current policies are imposing business practices on education, and the consequences are blighting the profession, and will continue to inflict ever deeper blight on the people engaged in it – at all levels. The relinquishing of financial...
