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.
Ten Alliance universities have been approved by the Department for Education to deliver modular courses under the government’s new Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE), marking a major step forward for flexible…
University Alliance's response summarises why our higher education system is, and will continue to be, a national asset that benefits individuals, employers, our public services and society. We outline four…
Commenting in response to the Education Committee’s report ‘Higher Education and Funding: Threat of Insolvency and International Students’, Vanessa Wilson, CEO of University Alliance said: “The findings of the Education…