1) The emphasis on competition is worrying. Higher education is one of those areas that should be protected from free-market principles if at all possible; there are simply services that the market should be not wholly relied on to provide as it is unsuited to do so.
2) Is John Denham right when he says that the report assumes an 80% cut in government funding towards Higher Education. If not, what figure would be correct? If there is no definite figure, what assumptions were made?
3) Would the Review not have benefited from having more members who have higher education experience?
4) What alternative is there? Those opposed to the Browne Report do have to propose alternatives, otherwise all we have is one side suggesting and the other side opposing.
5) How soon will be know what Vince Cable's reaction to the Report is? (his detailed reaction, not his immediate one)
6) Is it not somewhat depressing that after almost 60 years of higher educational reform we seem to be back at the beginning?
It was ever so, the world spins on and every generation thinks it has the answer to the chaos caused by the previous generation.....
ReplyDeleteDear Anon,
ReplyDeleteOne lives in hope!
David