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https://www.rethinkrepayment.com/
This British campaign for a reform of the student loan system is not asking for full loan forgiveness, on the sensible grounds that the UK's current fiscal constraints make this a non-starter.
These fiscal constraints are not, of course, the only obstacles to full loan forgiveness. Most obvious of these is the financing of UK universities, which depend in large part on undergraduate fees. In addition, the politics of loan forgiveness are challenging, to put it mildly; how easy would it be convince those without student loans, those paying large sums for child care, or adults faced with the financial challenge of caring for elderly parents that public money should be spent on a wiping out the debts that students assumed?
I recognize all these problems, but I still find myself thinking that excellent though the policy of widening access to higher education certainly has been, financing that policy in part through the introduction of students loans was a mistake. In addition to the debt burden the loan system imposes on so many, the commodification of undergraduate education wrought by the system has harmed students, universities, and UK society as a whole.
I wish we could think of a politically and financially feasible way of undoing this system altogether.
#UKHigherEducation #StudentsLoans #HigherEducation #Universities
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https://www.rethinkrepayment.com/
This British campaign for a reform of the student loan system is not asking for full loan forgiveness, on the sensible grounds that the UK's current fiscal constraints make this a non-starter.
These fiscal constraints are not, of course, the only obstacles to full loan forgiveness. Most obvious of these is the financing of UK universities, which depend in large part on undergraduate fees. In addition, the politics of loan forgiveness are challenging, to put it mildly; how easy would it be convince those without student loans, those paying large sums for child care, or adults faced with the financial challenge of caring for elderly parents that public money should be spent on a wiping out the debts that students assumed?
I recognize all these problems, but I still find myself thinking that excellent though the policy of widening access to higher education certainly has been, financing that policy in part through the introduction of students loans was a mistake. In addition to the debt burden the loan system imposes on so many, the commodification of undergraduate education wrought by the system has harmed students, universities, and UK society as a whole.
I wish we could think of a politically and financially feasible way of undoing this system altogether.
#UKHigherEducation #StudentsLoans #HigherEducation #Universities
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https://www.rethinkrepayment.com/
This British campaign for a reform of the student loan system is not asking for full loan forgiveness, on the sensible grounds that the UK's current fiscal constraints make this a non-starter.
These fiscal constraints are not, of course, the only obstacles to full loan forgiveness. Most obvious of these is the financing of UK universities, which depend in large part on undergraduate fees. In addition, the politics of loan forgiveness are challenging, to put it mildly; how easy would it be convince those without student loans, those paying large sums for child care, or adults faced with the financial challenge of caring for elderly parents that public money should be spent on a wiping out the debts that students assumed?
I recognize all these problems, but I still find myself thinking that excellent though the policy of widening access to higher education certainly has been, financing that policy in part through the introduction of students loans was a mistake. In addition to the debt burden the loan system imposes on so many, the commodification of undergraduate education wrought by the system has harmed students, universities, and UK society as a whole.
I wish we could think of a politically and financially feasible way of undoing this system altogether.
#UKHigherEducation #StudentsLoans #HigherEducation #Universities
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https://www.rethinkrepayment.com/
This British campaign for a reform of the student loan system is not asking for full loan forgiveness, on the sensible grounds that the UK's current fiscal constraints make this a non-starter.
These fiscal constraints are not, of course, the only obstacles to full loan forgiveness. Most obvious of these is the financing of UK universities, which depend in large part on undergraduate fees. In addition, the politics of loan forgiveness are challenging, to put it mildly; how easy would it be convince those without student loans, those paying large sums for child care, or adults faced with the financial challenge of caring for elderly parents that public money should be spent on a wiping out the debts that students assumed?
I recognize all these problems, but I still find myself thinking that excellent though the policy of widening access to higher education certainly has been, financing that policy in part through the introduction of students loans was a mistake. In addition to the debt burden the loan system imposes on so many, the commodification of undergraduate education wrought by the system has harmed students, universities, and UK society as a whole.
I wish we could think of a politically and financially feasible way of undoing this system altogether.
#UKHigherEducation #StudentsLoans #HigherEducation #Universities
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https://www.rethinkrepayment.com/
This British campaign for a reform of the student loan system is not asking for full loan forgiveness, on the sensible grounds that the UK's current fiscal constraints make this a non-starter.
These fiscal constraints are not, of course, the only obstacles to full loan forgiveness. Most obvious of these is the financing of UK universities, which depend in large part on undergraduate fees. In addition, the politics of loan forgiveness are challenging, to put it mildly; how easy would it be convince those without student loans, those paying large sums for child care, or adults faced with the financial challenge of caring for elderly parents that public money should be spent on a wiping out the debts that students assumed?
I recognize all these problems, but I still find myself thinking that excellent though the policy of widening access to higher education certainly has been, financing that policy in part through the introduction of students loans was a mistake. In addition to the debt burden the loan system imposes on so many, the commodification of undergraduate education wrought by the system has harmed students, universities, and UK society as a whole.
I wish we could think of a politically and financially feasible way of undoing this system altogether.
#UKHigherEducation #StudentsLoans #HigherEducation #Universities
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A refreshing look at UK Higher Education from a Green Peer. More of the same won’t sustain the quality of our Universities and although I might quibble on the detail the shift in thinking here is welcome.
I was struck recently by the need for HE professional societies to plan for a potential collapse in institutional memberships (and more urgently the sudden redundancy of trustees/officers). It’s that bad.
I didn’t join the Green Party because of any hope they would present some solutions for my sector (there are more existential reasons), but this is good.
Paywall I’m afraid.
TL:DR comprehensive HE is a public good and should be funded as such out of taxation.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/marketised-model-clearly-coming-end-says-ex-greens-leader
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A refreshing look at UK Higher Education from a Green Peer. More of the same won’t sustain the quality of our Universities and although I might quibble on the detail the shift in thinking here is welcome.
I was struck recently by the need for HE professional societies to plan for a potential collapse in institutional memberships (and more urgently the sudden redundancy of trustees/officers). It’s that bad.
I didn’t join the Green Party because of any hope they would present some solutions for my sector (there are more existential reasons), but this is good.
Paywall I’m afraid.
TL:DR comprehensive HE is a public good and should be funded as such out of taxation.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/marketised-model-clearly-coming-end-says-ex-greens-leader
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A refreshing look at UK Higher Education from a Green Peer. More of the same won’t sustain the quality of our Universities and although I might quibble on the detail the shift in thinking here is welcome.
I was struck recently by the need for HE professional societies to plan for a potential collapse in institutional memberships (and more urgently the sudden redundancy of trustees/officers). It’s that bad.
I didn’t join the Green Party because of any hope they would present some solutions for my sector (there are more existential reasons), but this is good.
Paywall I’m afraid.
TL:DR comprehensive HE is a public good and should be funded as such out of taxation.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/marketised-model-clearly-coming-end-says-ex-greens-leader
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A refreshing look at UK Higher Education from a Green Peer. More of the same won’t sustain the quality of our Universities and although I might quibble on the detail the shift in thinking here is welcome.
I was struck recently by the need for HE professional societies to plan for a potential collapse in institutional memberships (and more urgently the sudden redundancy of trustees/officers). It’s that bad.
I didn’t join the Green Party because of any hope they would present some solutions for my sector (there are more existential reasons), but this is good.
Paywall I’m afraid.
TL:DR comprehensive HE is a public good and should be funded as such out of taxation.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/marketised-model-clearly-coming-end-says-ex-greens-leader
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A refreshing look at UK Higher Education from a Green Peer. More of the same won’t sustain the quality of our Universities and although I might quibble on the detail the shift in thinking here is welcome.
I was struck recently by the need for HE professional societies to plan for a potential collapse in institutional memberships (and more urgently the sudden redundancy of trustees/officers). It’s that bad.
I didn’t join the Green Party because of any hope they would present some solutions for my sector (there are more existential reasons), but this is good.
Paywall I’m afraid.
TL:DR comprehensive HE is a public good and should be funded as such out of taxation.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/marketised-model-clearly-coming-end-says-ex-greens-leader
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@chris/115616898800224554
Some of the trends are similar in the UK (where we are attacking International Students through the immigration system and general evilness of Labour chasing Reform)
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@chris/115616898800224554
Some of the trends are similar in the UK (where we are attacking International Students through the immigration system and general evilness of Labour chasing Reform)
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@chris/115616898800224554
Some of the trends are similar in the UK (where we are attacking International Students through the immigration system and general evilness of Labour chasing Reform)
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RE: https://socialbc.ca/@chris/115616898800224554
Some of the trends are similar in the UK (where we are attacking International Students through the immigration system and general evilness of Labour chasing Reform)
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If anyone wonders what university is good for? They keep you from voting populist and rightwing like Reform!! #UK #Labour gov need help fund universities! #ukhighereducation
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If anyone wonders what university is good for? They keep you from voting populist and rightwing like Reform!! #UK #Labour gov need help fund universities! #ukhighereducation
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If anyone wonders what university is good for? They keep you from voting populist and rightwing like Reform!! #UK #Labour gov need help fund universities! #ukhighereducation
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>> Universities are large publicly subsidised institutions, as vulnerable to self-perpetuating cycles of dysfunction as any other. It is reckless to think they will course-correct under their own momentum.....Unless and until academics identify a specific, realistic mechanism for their own regulation, any complaints about externally imposed reforms have little credibility.<<
Although the authors rightly draw attention to a real problem of ideological conformism in some humanities departments, the cure they seem to be proposing, government interference in the content of humanities research and education in the name of "accountability", would be far worse than the disease, as it would signal the end of academic freedom in UK higher education.
The authors do not help their case by sprinkling it with irrelevant right wing talking points; for example, student campaigning against the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford, far from representing a suffocating "wokery", was actually part of a vigorous and healthy public debate about British imperial history and public art. Isn't that just the kind of public debate humanities academics should welcome?
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>> Universities are large publicly subsidised institutions, as vulnerable to self-perpetuating cycles of dysfunction as any other. It is reckless to think they will course-correct under their own momentum.....Unless and until academics identify a specific, realistic mechanism for their own regulation, any complaints about externally imposed reforms have little credibility.<<
Although the authors rightly draw attention to a real problem of ideological conformism in some humanities departments, the cure they seem to be proposing, government interference in the content of humanities research and education in the name of "accountability", would be far worse than the disease, as it would signal the end of academic freedom in UK higher education.
The authors do not help their case by sprinkling it with irrelevant right wing talking points; for example, student campaigning against the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford, far from representing a suffocating "wokery", was actually part of a vigorous and healthy public debate about British imperial history and public art. Isn't that just the kind of public debate humanities academics should welcome?
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>> Universities are large publicly subsidised institutions, as vulnerable to self-perpetuating cycles of dysfunction as any other. It is reckless to think they will course-correct under their own momentum.....Unless and until academics identify a specific, realistic mechanism for their own regulation, any complaints about externally imposed reforms have little credibility.<<
Although the authors rightly draw attention to a real problem of ideological conformism in some humanities departments, the cure they seem to be proposing, government interference in the content of humanities research and education in the name of "accountability", would be far worse than the disease, as it would signal the end of academic freedom in UK higher education.
The authors do not help their case by sprinkling it with irrelevant right wing talking points; for example, student campaigning against the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford, far from representing a suffocating "wokery", was actually part of a vigorous and healthy public debate about British imperial history and public art. Isn't that just the kind of public debate humanities academics should welcome?
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>> Universities are large publicly subsidised institutions, as vulnerable to self-perpetuating cycles of dysfunction as any other. It is reckless to think they will course-correct under their own momentum.....Unless and until academics identify a specific, realistic mechanism for their own regulation, any complaints about externally imposed reforms have little credibility.<<
Although the authors rightly draw attention to a real problem of ideological conformism in some humanities departments, the cure they seem to be proposing, government interference in the content of humanities research and education in the name of "accountability", would be far worse than the disease, as it would signal the end of academic freedom in UK higher education.
The authors do not help their case by sprinkling it with irrelevant right wing talking points; for example, student campaigning against the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford, far from representing a suffocating "wokery", was actually part of a vigorous and healthy public debate about British imperial history and public art. Isn't that just the kind of public debate humanities academics should welcome?
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>> Universities are large publicly subsidised institutions, as vulnerable to self-perpetuating cycles of dysfunction as any other. It is reckless to think they will course-correct under their own momentum.....Unless and until academics identify a specific, realistic mechanism for their own regulation, any complaints about externally imposed reforms have little credibility.<<
Although the authors rightly draw attention to a real problem of ideological conformism in some humanities departments, the cure they seem to be proposing, government interference in the content of humanities research and education in the name of "accountability", would be far worse than the disease, as it would signal the end of academic freedom in UK higher education.
The authors do not help their case by sprinkling it with irrelevant right wing talking points; for example, student campaigning against the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford, far from representing a suffocating "wokery", was actually part of a vigorous and healthy public debate about British imperial history and public art. Isn't that just the kind of public debate humanities academics should welcome?
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Although this incident happened in 2018, I only learned about it in a recent issue of the TLS.
If the case is fully and accurately reported, it represents an absurd and repressive abuse of authority by a university which, alas, can only fuel the hostility towards higher education currently stoked by Reform and others on the right.
#RobertIvinson ##UniversityOfExeter #ExeterUniversity #UKHigherEducation #HigherEducation #Universities #FreeSpeech
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Although this incident happened in 2018, I only learned about it in a recent issue of the TLS.
If the case is fully and accurately reported, it represents an absurd and repressive abuse of authority by a university which, alas, can only fuel the hostility towards higher education currently stoked by Reform and others on the right.
#RobertIvinson ##UniversityOfExeter #ExeterUniversity #UKHigherEducation #HigherEducation #Universities #FreeSpeech
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Although this incident happened in 2018, I only learned about it in a recent issue of the TLS.
If the case is fully and accurately reported, it represents an absurd and repressive abuse of authority by a university which, alas, can only fuel the hostility towards higher education currently stoked by Reform and others on the right.
#RobertIvinson ##UniversityOfExeter #ExeterUniversity #UKHigherEducation #HigherEducation #Universities #FreeSpeech
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Although this incident happened in 2018, I only learned about it in a recent issue of the TLS.
If the case is fully and accurately reported, it represents an absurd and repressive abuse of authority by a university which, alas, can only fuel the hostility towards higher education currently stoked by Reform and others on the right.
#RobertIvinson ##UniversityOfExeter #ExeterUniversity #UKHigherEducation #HigherEducation #Universities #FreeSpeech
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Although this incident happened in 2018, I only learned about it in a recent issue of the TLS.
If the case is fully and accurately reported, it represents an absurd and repressive abuse of authority by a university which, alas, can only fuel the hostility towards higher education currently stoked by Reform and others on the right.
#RobertIvinson ##UniversityOfExeter #ExeterUniversity #UKHigherEducation #HigherEducation #Universities #FreeSpeech
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Sad but not surprised to see that "Deliveroo illuminatio mea" is creeping in as the new university motto.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford | The Guardian
#HigherEducation #Academia #UKHigherEducation #Oxford #Labour
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Sad but not surprised to see that "Deliveroo illuminatio mea" is creeping in as the new university motto.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford | The Guardian
#HigherEducation #Academia #UKHigherEducation #Oxford #Labour
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Sad but not surprised to see that "Deliveroo illuminatio mea" is creeping in as the new university motto.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford | The Guardian
#HigherEducation #Academia #UKHigherEducation #Oxford #Labour
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Sad but not surprised to see that "Deliveroo illuminatio mea" is creeping in as the new university motto.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford | The Guardian
#HigherEducation #Academia #UKHigherEducation #Oxford #Labour
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Sad but not surprised to see that "Deliveroo illuminatio mea" is creeping in as the new university motto.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff | University of Oxford | The Guardian
#HigherEducation #Academia #UKHigherEducation #Oxford #Labour