With the launch of the Council for the Defence of British Universities,the academic 'considerable and good' are finally voicing their opposition to the marketisation of higher education, says Peter ScottA new association has been launched to oppose the government's reform of higher education in England, or the Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU). Ministers may attempt to trash the council as a clatter of donnish reactionaries,out of touch and out of time.
They seem to fill decided that the offensive is the better allotment of defence. The universities minister, David Willetts, or scandalous-temperedly pitched into the recent Higher Education Policy Institute's sober report on how taxpayers will continue to supply big subsidies even though fees fill been tripled – a lose-lose situation,if ever there was one. The CDBU can probably expect similar treatment.
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Source: theguardian.com