วันจันทร์ที่ 24 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Universities: a half-baked Ivy League that spells two tiers of unfairness | Peter Wilby

the imposition of a market in universities, ministers are divisions modern grammars and secondary scars

Maybe a camel is a horse designed by a committee not, but a coalition government with the addition of some prehistoric mounds Nick Clegg. No doubt the White Paper this week on higher education has a camel comparable characteristics. In a chapter that says "hiring without restriction" to 65,000 "high performance" of students receiving AAB or above a level. These students do not have caps on hiring ministers are forcing universities to limit the cost loans to cover costs up to $ 9,000 per year. Since universities do not attract many students will have their recruitment missions AAB - and therefore, incomes and jobs of employees - the reduction, this seems an incentive to recognize the achievements of top. This means that from a level of quality are strongly influenced by income class and family (despite the efforts of governments in the last 30 years), an incentive to support the most privileged 18.

In another chapter, Witters white paper on the need to improve social mobility through an "equitable access" and noted that 20% of students in more advantaged areas are now seven times more likely than low incomes to attend an elite university, including Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol (in the 1990s were six times more likely). There is a promise to "strengthen" the Office of equitable access and a sign of approval for the use of "contextual information" - to get results and test background into account in the recruitment of -. students

is tempting to see the first chapter that Tory, Lib Dem second, each storing soda bump - in the academic affirmative action to others - to keep disgruntled bank and activists in the long route until 2015. However, the White Paper has a theme, if you look hard enough: the government's determination that there should be a market in higher education

Ministers expect universities on their own. With the tripling of the costs of attendance, it is expected that only the elite universities charge the maximum £ 9,000 per year. Humble institutions, with less to offer in the form of buildings covered in ivy, centuries of history and employment opportunities on the banks of the city or the FTSE 100 companies, which charge less. This is how markets are supposed to work. Unfortunately, it is how higher education, in part because students do not pay in advance and partly because it is difficult to tell from outside what is good in college. The student 'customers' and their parents are in prestige. The best way to increase your prestige, universities calculated, was to establish the highest price possible. A lower price would be a sign of an inferior product. All but a handful decided to charge £ 9000 or somewhere near it.

Ministers therefore imposed a market. Universities that can attract the best qualified students are allowed to charge the maximum rate and expand recruitment - although some, especially Oxford and Cambridge, will do that, preferring to maintain exclusivity. Meanwhile, the universities that are committed by 7.500 pounds or less must be allowed to tender for a part of the 20,000 places also outside the limits of contracting. In other words, those who can not draw the OAA will have a choice: go out of business or lower prices

the academic hierarchy is largely an accident of history. Major universities to attract the best qualified students by teachers and parents have heard of them. It also improves qualified staff with an international reputation for research. Because he knows that to get the "best" students, employers look for graduates, ensuring high employment, and thus attract the next generation of students. It's a virtuous circle in which the quality of teaching and the rigor of the courses are not related.

ministers are open about his ambition to become the English universities and more towards the American model, and create an equivalent of U. S. Ivy League. They believe, like most British are, the U.S. higher education is more equitable and efficient. They are wrong. More selective U.S. universities admit only 3% of its students from lower socioeconomic quartile (mostly African-American), 74% higher. As Howard Hotson, a scholar of Oxford, said in the London Review of Books, the UK does best in international rankings of American universities, once the population is taken into account, with four of 20 (one per 15 , 5 million) against the United States 13 (one per 23.9 million).


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