Regulation
Ministers must stop spreading bogus news about bogus colleges
The government regularly claims that it has cracked down on hundreds of 'bogus colleges' offering student visas, but is that really the case? Mike Ratcliffe has looked into who really has been coming on and off the Tier 4 register.
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Beyond metrics: An open letter to Sir Michael Barber
The new OfS Chair is famous as a disciple of the Third Way in public services. Shân Wareing makes a plea for the future of HE regulation to adhere to the Fourth Way, a less metrics driven and more inclusive approach.
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The end of the binary divide: reflections on 25 years of the 1992 Act
The 'binary divide' between universities and polytechnics proved to be unsustainable, but the challenges it created are still with us today. Mike Ratcliffe evaluates the 1992 Act's background and legacy.
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Degrees of autonomy: universities and apprenticeship standards
Regulating degree apprenticeships and approving baseline standards is very different to the usual process of awarding degrees. Catherine Boyd asks whether the current processes blur the lines of university autonomy.
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Deliverology in, out and around the university
As Michael Barber starts his tenure as Chair of the Office of Students, David Morris reviews his recent writing on universities, policymaking and government, to unpick what his approach might be.
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Higher education must learn from other sectors on living with a regulator
Like it or not, the higher education sector will soon have to deal with an active and well-armed regulator. Jonathan Nicholls looks at the challenges this might pose and the lessons that can be learned from other sectors' experiences.
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Bankers as public servants
An insightful anecdote by a reader of the American Scholar on how banking has changed during his lifetime:
“Good Fences Make Good Bankers” by William J. Quirk (Spring 2013) reminds me of an experience I had in the 1950s. A final-year law student interviewing for a position with a major bank in Ohio, I had the temerity to ask the interviewer what kind of financial future I might expect in a legal career with a bank. He paused and in measured tones told me that if I was concerned with financial success, I should not go into banking. Banking, he said earnestly, was a quasi-public-service industry, and its primary mission was to protect the funds of its depositors and assist its borrowing customers.
Can you picture a bank interviewer, with a straight face, uttering these same words to a young job applicant today? (italics added)
Reference
Shapiro, Fred., "Bankers as public servants", American Scholar, Summer 2013.
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