THE: Marginal incentive: coalition ‘blinks first in game of chicken’
Published on May 3, 2012
The government has made changes to the number of ‘core-and-margin’ places that will be open to bids in 2013. Commenting on the changes, Libby Hackett, director of the University Alliance, said that 60 to 70 per cent of students at University Alliance institutions were on professionally accredited courses, for which demand would be “relatively stable”. Such programmes could even be expanded in the wake of the policy revision, she suggested.
University Alliance has responded to the Department for Education’s consultation on the future funding model for the Office for Students (OfS). While supporting the principle of an independent and appropriately resourced…
In response to the government’s response to the technical consultation on the International Student Levy, Vanessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance has said: “We are very disappointed that the government…