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This year will be a watershed in the transformation of universities from communities of scholars to cheap degree shops competing for ‘customers’ - unless concerted and localised resistance can prevent it. Two recent news stories have confirmed the forces gathered behind the senior partners in the Coalition government.
2012: a ‘Big Bang’ in higher education? | openDemocracy
Lecturers from 47 universities in England would go on strike to protest against changes to superannuation scheme.
Thousands of lecturers to strike over changes to pensions and pay | Education | The Guardian
Perhaps we should scream. Before it's too late - Comment - TES Connect
In one of his most vicious and disturbing works, poet Philip Larkin looks through terror-stricken eyes at "The Old Fools" - those infirm and demented elderly relatives sitting in institutional high-backed chairs, reeking of urine, mouths lolling open, and undergoing a "whole hideous inverted childhood". Needless to say, it is a picture of utter degradation.
The number of senior teachers seeking advice on how to dismiss colleagues – and keep their own jobs – has hit a peak last seen in the late 1990s, a headteachers' association has warned.
Schools to make up to a fifth of staff redundant, headteachers warn | Politics | The Guardian
We humans like putting things in order. From an early age we are taught that all things have a place.
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The Office of Fair Access will set out today what universities who want to charge more then £6,000 for tuition fees have to do in return to get more students from poor backgrounds onto their courses.
BBC News - Today - Fees 'like a bit of extra income tax'
They say universities are being forced to "fly blind" over plans to increase fees because a White Paper outlining how the new system will work is being delayed until later in the year.
Hundreds of Oxbridge dons demand inquiry into tuition fees - Education News, Education - The Independent
Spending Review - HM Treasury
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Browne Review - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Browne Review or Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance [ 1 ] was a review to consider the future direction of higher education funding in England.
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The law of unintended consequences has ruined many an ambitious minister's career.
guardian: Once, higher education was public good Editorial
Teacher suspended over claim she told school pupils to join student protests | Education | guardian.co.uk
Teachers and students in central London to protest against an increase in university tuition fees, in December.If you have an interest in some of the big issues facing universities in the UK today, but more importantly tomorrow, this is as good as any place to start. This publication is made up of a collection of articles, each presenting a well-researched and accessible piece on the state of higher education. The book places these developments in a historical context with references made to key international developments elsewhere.
The Marketisation of Higher Education: The Student as Consumer
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Students protesting against tution fee rises in Trafalgar Square, London, on 9 December. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA
Students plan more protests over tuition fees and cuts | Education | The Guardian
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