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The Blurb On The Back:
Recent policies have replaced direct government funding for teaching with fees paid by students. As well as saddling graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt from unpaid loans is rocketing.
This timely and challenging analysis combines theoretical and data analysis and insights gained from running a university, to give robust new policy proposals: lower fees; reintroduce maintenance awards; impose student number caps; maintain taxpayer funding; cancel the TEF; re-build the external examiner system; restructure the contingent-repayment loan scheme; and establish different roles for different types of institutions, to encourage excellence and ultimately benefit society.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Jefferson Frank was founding head of the Economics Department at Royal Holloway University and Norman Gowar is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of London. This informative, if at times a little dry, book offers a good summary of how we got to the existing model of university funding in England, how it’s created perverse incentives and increased dissatisfaction across students and academics alike and suggests ways to improve it.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
Recent policies have replaced direct government funding for teaching with fees paid by students. As well as saddling graduates with enormous debt, satisfaction rates are low, a high proportion of graduates are in non-graduate jobs, and public debt from unpaid loans is rocketing.
This timely and challenging analysis combines theoretical and data analysis and insights gained from running a university, to give robust new policy proposals: lower fees; reintroduce maintenance awards; impose student number caps; maintain taxpayer funding; cancel the TEF; re-build the external examiner system; restructure the contingent-repayment loan scheme; and establish different roles for different types of institutions, to encourage excellence and ultimately benefit society.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Jefferson Frank was founding head of the Economics Department at Royal Holloway University and Norman Gowar is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of London. This informative, if at times a little dry, book offers a good summary of how we got to the existing model of university funding in England, how it’s created perverse incentives and increased dissatisfaction across students and academics alike and suggests ways to improve it.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
