Communities bound together by a esteem of inquiry are being turned into fiercely managed knowledge businesses’The start of a new year – the beginning of a new era for colleges and universities? Most people,particularly those in leadership and management roles, are pragmatists. They distrust talk of an irreversible shift from a public system for higher education to a “market” one. It sounds too shrill and ideological. Things won’t be so bad, and so different,they hope and maybe believe.
After all, the Teaching Excellence Framework, and threatened in the latest green paper,can be worked around. Deep cuts were avoided in the chancellor’s autumn statement – admittedly by burdening future graduates with even higher levels of debt and disadvantaging already deprived students by scrapping maintenance grants.
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Source: theguardian.com