Finanziamento del capitale per le università in Inghilterra da tagliare
https://www.ft.com/content/ec744435-ae1e-43b4-9474-37aa27d74f00
di F0urLeafCl0ver
Finanziamento del capitale per le università in Inghilterra da tagliare
https://www.ft.com/content/ec744435-ae1e-43b4-9474-37aa27d74f00
di F0urLeafCl0ver
8 commenti
Government doing what it can to bankrupt Universities. The fact they’re targeting courses like Media or Journalism isn’t a surprise. Can’t have an educated electorate who see through the propaganda now can we.
So I currently work in a position where I am mostly supplying big bits of lab kit to the UK from overseas. A big chunk of that market is universities. I have to say we are already at a point where its quite hard to explain the realities of how difficult and slow-moving it is to make any of these purchases currently. Even when the funds can be found the other problem is that there then isn’t the money to keep on enough staff to actually make use of the kit they already have.
This is really bad news, there really just is not any fat to trim without total root to branch reform of the entire sector (which honestly would not be unwelcome at this point).
I think one of the most impactful things we could do is try to separate out the teaching side of the university sector from the research side. It feels like there was some effort to do this in the 00s but this was dropped by the 2010s. A lot of university research centers and hubs I was trained in myself just don’t exist any more or are on skeleton staff with nothing really going on just ticking over. Research is often a net loss for universities so of course there’s a huge incentive to direct capital funding towards productive things, which basically boils down to shiny shinies that you can take photos of and stick in a prospectus to pique some rich foreign kid’s interest.
Let’s grow the economy! How shall we do it? Let’s start by continuing to trap one of our most successful, internationally-renowned sectors in a terrible funding model, and then further restrict outside investment… oh and we should also disincentivise the most high-value customers….
I’m not necessarily in favour of cutting the winter fuel allowance, especially the way the cut was implemented.
But keeping winter fuel while doing this is just a transfer from students to pensioners.
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Pay me instead. I’ll get a load of blackboards and can rent out a sports center for classes.
What I can never understand, is why we can’t just vary tuition fee rates according to the importance of the skill set to the economy?
Doctors, lower tuition. Degree in David Beckham, maximum tuition.
Or at least have grades and the university can choose to balance ratios of which
I think we’ve reached the point where the state and big business no longer view the general population as vital participants, but rather as a managed demographic.
It feels as though we’re being treated like horses were 15 years before the car went into mass production, still technically needed, but clearly on the way out. The crucial difference this time is that they know the change is coming, and seem to be preparing for it:
* No real effort to address falling birth rates
* Systematic cuts to education funding
* Cuts to benefits across almost every area of society
* Fewer and fewer homes being built
Put simply, it looks like they’re not planning for a thriving, growing population. They’re planning for a smaller, more tightly controlled society where large parts of the public are no longer economically necessary. It’s a quiet shift, but one that will define the next 10–15 years especially with AI and automation displacing millions of jobs.