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Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
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'Institutions that are biting the bullet, like mine, will struggle with the costs of running rigorous assessments, but know the costs of not doing so will be far greater.' (Dr Craig Reeves, Birkbeck) 2/2
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Time Magazine's headline is rather different, and its article is well worth reading (no paywall).
Here's the link to the abstract of Natallya Kos'myna's paper itself: www.media.mit.edu/publications... 2/2
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'Whilst as a sector we (quite rightly) focus more on the gap in degree-level attainment by ethnicity (where white students typically outperform those from ethnic minority backgrounds), it is still worth considering why gaps in HE access by ethnicity are so large'. 2/2
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'DMU, which has since set up a new campus in Dubai, denies wrongdoing....Alongside the outpost in Internet City, the Leicester-based university also recently established a London campus. The university also has outposts in Kazakhstan and Cambodia.' 2/2
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'“As a result of the really quite sudden financial pressures facing universities, they are making local unilateral decisions [regarding funding cuts] – I would like to find a way to do that in a more coordinated way across the country,” she said.' Other options than managed decline exist. 3/3
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'Discussing the “underpinning causes” of this financial stress, Leyser explained that “universities have been strongly incentivised to increase the volume of their research” and have funded it by expanding “surplus-generating” activities – mainly the education of international students.' 2/3
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'Universities will not be able to submit the work of staff who have been made compulsorily redundant if it is published after they have been sacked. However, universities will...set their own approach to the submission of outputs from...those “who have been selected for voluntary redundancy..”.' 2/2
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'In the words of a recent report commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity, “a degree will not guarantee an individual a job in the creative industries; but an individual is unlikely to get a creative industries job without a degree.”' 2/2
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'It is impossible to calculate the financial impact that such reputational damage will have on universities in terms of reduced student recruitment and research income. But it would be unwise to conclude that because it is not countable, it does not count.' 3/3
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'there is a crucial parameter that typically gets overlooked in universities’ cost-benefit calculations precisely because it is hard to figure reliably in a spreadsheet – and that is reputation.' 2/3
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Yes, there are; these 2 new studentships are in addition to, not instead of an open-topic scheme that's been running for years: www.ucl.ac.uk/scholarships...
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And here is the UCL SELCS-CMII PhD studentship. Please repost to maximise knowledge of this funding for both studentships. 2/2
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'“Individual universities and regions will have different views because it will require trade-offs. But such grand bargains have been struck before and are needed again,” he added, warning that “if we don’t do it prospectively, it will happen by accident”.' 3/3
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'Speaking to Research Professional News, Shitij Kapur said that the current model has “lived its course” and that “untenable” losses on research now require a new political vision.' 2/3
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That was not my point. My point was that the article didn't address the options of the great majority (of even academics) living under this threat. That is the bigger issue and deserved to have space devoted to it.
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'where we have ended up...is in the worst of both worlds – institutional boards that are neither sufficiently academically robust to have a grip of academic excellence nor sufficiently strategic and entrepreneurial to ensure institutions...thrive in the current higher education landscape.' 3/3
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'On the other hand, some of the business decisions that are made to secure financial sustainability or long term institutional success put the academic imperative at risk..' 2/3