Universities are between a rock and a hard place. Fees have barely budged in 10 years.
Good for them.
Though I don’t agree with them using RPI as their baseline measure.
The railway unions use it, but that’s in part because rail dares are also linked to RPI.
I genuinely don’t think people outside of the sector understand how bad things have gotten in British HE. It is basically running on inertia at this point. When foreign students start to clock that standards have fallen and the inertia of our reputation starts to falter I think we’ll be in a *very* sticky situation.
Our Universities were once a major asset that created huge amounts of soft power and drew in literally billions of pounds in funding historically. We have thrown that away over this last decade for nothing. There was no reason for it and it will take a *long* time to build back.
Good. I am a student and I support this because my tutors are lovely people and they deserve better treatment, both for the work they put in, and what they do for society.
The worst thing that ever happened to university was the sudden impetus for everyone to go to university. It stopped being a means for gifted students to hone their academic abilities and became a way to delay joining the workforce. This devalued the university degree, increased costs to the students and the universities and reduced the taxable workforce. Universities are now full of mediocre people teaching other even more mediocre people, for poor pay and high workloads. Research has taken a hit because everyone is so focused on teaching and we the cost to universities is so high we are forced to bring in wealthy international students. It’s unsustainable
Unite have taken a ballot of University workers to make ready for strike action too. If Unison join in, things could get quiet on campus
I work in HE and I have seen how it went from world class to profit driven education. Things are similar to the NHS, front line workers are overworked and under appreciated, people at the top are completely detached from what is happening in the ground, and a culture of bullying and intimidation is the order of the day.
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Universities are between a rock and a hard place. Fees have barely budged in 10 years.
Good for them.
Though I don’t agree with them using RPI as their baseline measure.
The railway unions use it, but that’s in part because rail dares are also linked to RPI.
I genuinely don’t think people outside of the sector understand how bad things have gotten in British HE. It is basically running on inertia at this point. When foreign students start to clock that standards have fallen and the inertia of our reputation starts to falter I think we’ll be in a *very* sticky situation.
Our Universities were once a major asset that created huge amounts of soft power and drew in literally billions of pounds in funding historically. We have thrown that away over this last decade for nothing. There was no reason for it and it will take a *long* time to build back.
Good. I am a student and I support this because my tutors are lovely people and they deserve better treatment, both for the work they put in, and what they do for society.
The worst thing that ever happened to university was the sudden impetus for everyone to go to university. It stopped being a means for gifted students to hone their academic abilities and became a way to delay joining the workforce. This devalued the university degree, increased costs to the students and the universities and reduced the taxable workforce. Universities are now full of mediocre people teaching other even more mediocre people, for poor pay and high workloads. Research has taken a hit because everyone is so focused on teaching and we the cost to universities is so high we are forced to bring in wealthy international students. It’s unsustainable
Unite have taken a ballot of University workers to make ready for strike action too. If Unison join in, things could get quiet on campus
I work in HE and I have seen how it went from world class to profit driven education. Things are similar to the NHS, front line workers are overworked and under appreciated, people at the top are completely detached from what is happening in the ground, and a culture of bullying and intimidation is the order of the day.