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The Debate on Higher Education - Challenging the Assumptions (Paperback)
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The Debate on Higher Education - Challenging the Assumptions (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Education, No. 5
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Higher Education in the UK is at a crucial juncture in its history.
Its funding is in crisis, and morale amongst students and academics
perilously low. This monograph offers two contributions to the
debate. Like many of the nationalised industries of old,
producer-driven higher education suffers from inefficiencies and
lack of responsiveness to its consumers: Adrian Seville shows how
modularisation - the introduction of 'quasi'-markets in higher
education - could ameliorate some of these problems. His paper
explores fundamental issues, and challenges whether the current
quality control mechanism in higher education can be considered
satisfactory even in a traditional university setting, let alone
when modularisation is introduced. Tooley's contribution takes the
debate a step further. The suggestion of 'quasi'-markets in higher
education begs the question as to why bot 'genuine' markets? Hence
he examines the fundamental assumption which remains unchallenged
in much of the current debate: why should government be involved in
higher education at all? He looks at the major justifications given
for government intervention, and finds each wanting.Government is
not needed to make higher education opportunities available.
Indeed, there are negative effects of such intervention, including
qualification inflation. Finally, the desirable goal of equity in
terms of access to higher learning only needs the minimal
intervention of private income contingent loans for tuition and
maintenance, not the gamut of interference with which we are
familiar.
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