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Having made a pig of university funding, the government had to dress it up. But who will be seduced by a brazen shade of 'Student Experience' lipstick or the White Paper's other blandishments?...
The government's White Paper will undermine higher education in England. It makes frequent mention of the excellence of the system it now threatens and proposes new forms of financing that are more...
As a former vice-chancellor and now the chair of an NHS trust, I have been struck by the similarities between the government's reforms of higher education and health.Both sets of initial policies...