'We're trashing our universities.'
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The UK government is failing to invest sufficiently in higher education. Politicians seem to place more emphasis on gaining votes in the short term than on the long-term quality of universities.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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A salutary lesson in undergraduate economics
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The United Kingdom government plans to change funding for university students, charging tuition fees and replacing grants with loans. Students could have bills of 9,000 pounds sterling when they end their courses. There are good reasons for charging fees for university education, and student numbers are not likely to drop, but there is cause for concern over the impact of the changes on poorer students. Students are more likely to choose vocational courses which will please employers, but make the United Kingdom less interesting for people not interested in engineering and computing.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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Tony Blair's half a million extra college students: sleight of hand or a magic formula?
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The announcement by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair that an extra 500,000 people will enter higher and further education by 2002 has been greeted with great surprise. Civil servants were clearly unaware of this new policy, which seems to have been extracted from the White Paper on lifelong learning which is to be published in Nov 1997. Universities and colleges have reacted with some caution, and cannot really believe that they will receive the additional funding required for higher student numbers.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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