Priorities for welfare

Article Abstract:

Higher education cannot hope to compete for social funding in the UK. The government has to focus on the core concerns of social policy, which are the economic exclusion of some sectors of the population, the health service and schools. The labour government has begun to address the widening inequality in earnings by introducing measures to raise the income of the lowest paid. It has also allocated more finance to schools and the health service but this has only been enough to allow them to catch up on levels of quality which had been eroded, and to go some way to meeting higher public expectations.

Finance, Cover Story, Social policy, Welfare state

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Hotline for not-so-blind data

Article Abstract:

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is able to provide data on many questions relating to higher education, in the UK, but the information should be considered with care as often it is very complicated. The HESA deals with 500 million pieces of information. Defining the best or worst universities is complex and a definitive answer is not possible because of the variations involved, such as size, academic achievement and finances. The HESA issues 28 million data items annually but it is not willing to create league tables.

Standards, Universities and colleges, Schools

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Synthesis (trends) (Times Higher Supplement)

Article Abstract:

Prior to the 1980s universities were offering expensive education generally reserved for the middle classes of UK society. By the 1991 the emphasis had changed to cheaper high-volume education available to all sectors of society, but are school leavers receiving the same quality of education in the 1990s as they were in 1981. Information on education trends between 1981 and 1991 is included.

Statistics, College students

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