Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction
How Did We Get Here?
A Short Note On: The Case for Free Tuition and the Scottish Approach
Markets Without Competition
Stakeholders and Expenditures
Expanding Numbers and Maintaining Standards
A Short Note On: Setting up the OIA
Widening Participation and Student Finance
A Short Note On: The Open University
A Short Note On: The Case for Career Colleges: The US Model, by Lincoln E. Frank
Adjusting to the Future
