Higher Education Reforms

The coalition government’s Higher Education reforms: raising quality or nonsense on stilts?

Date:
Wednesday 14 December 2011
Time: 4.30pm for 5pm
Location: St Mary's Road, Ealing, W5 5RF

In his lecture a year ago Professor Brown looked at the claim in the then recently published Browne Report that the creation of a market in higher education would raise quality. Following the While Paper Higher Education: Putting students at the Heart of the System and the subsequent (so called Technical Consultation Paper A New, Fit-for-Purpose Regulatory Framework for the Higher Education Sector we now have a clearer picture of the Government's intentions on funding and quality.

He will be arguing that there are great fundamental contradictions between these regimes, contradictions that will cause great trouble for the sector over the next few years until some necessary adjustments are made.

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Raising quality or nonsense on stilts?