S African v-c warns UK over divisions

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Barney Pityana, vice-chancellor of the University of South Africa (Unisa), has warned the British government that it risks trampling on university autonomy and academic freedoms as it attempts to reform higher education. Pityana, who was in the UK to meet UK-based students and alumni of Unisa, warned that the government's attempts to force universities to play to their strengths through, among other things, a further concentration of research funding, threaten to undermine the fundamental purpose of universities.

Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Universities and colleges, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Educational aspects, Pityana, Barney

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Clarke finds talk is far from cheap

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An analysis of the dilemma facing Government ministers as they attempt to meet the public promises made by ministers, including Tony Blair, Education Secretary Charles Clarke and Chancellor Gordon Brown, regarding the expansion of higher education in the UK and the funding of students. How to fund the expansion of higher education is the main dilemma that ministers need to address.

Strategy & planning, Government expenditures, Organizational history, Planning, Education, Higher, Higher education, Company restructuring/company reorganization, Reorganization and restructuring, Higher education and state, Company business planning, Company organization, Government finance, Educational reform

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