Trust is being severely strained by the General Election in the United Kingdom Does it matter when former Conservative MP and Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Nicky Morgan goes on ITV’s Good Morning Britain and brazenly claims that 50,000 new nurses will be recruited when that number includes trying to stop 19,000 […]
Read the rest of this entry »Is there a third way to sort Brexit?
Well, at least the Liberal “Democrats” have put some clear blue water between the main political parties on Brexit in the run-up to a General Election and/or second referendum. Their party conference voted to cancel Brexit if they win a majority in the next Parliament, which sounds pretty final. But it doesn’t sound very democratic […]
Read the rest of this entry »Don’t you know anyone who voted for Brexit?
Does the UK higher education elite need to break out of its London and South East bubble and attempt to understand why people in Northern cities like Sunderland and Middlesbrough voted heavily in favour of Brexit?
Read the rest of this entry »Call grows for authentic website student reviews
SUDDENLY everyone appears to be calling for authentic student reviews on university websites – a public place where existing “customers” of higher education can say what it is really like to be studying on a course at this or that university. Among those leading the charge is web guru Gerry McGovern (pictured), whose key message […]
Read the rest of this entry »Review into ‘broken’ higher education student funding
British universities started the New Year much as they ended 2017 – on the back foot as they struggled to fend off criticism of bulging pay packets for vice-chancellors. Meanwhile staff went on strike to protect their pensions and students complained about not getting value-for-money for their £9,250 yearly tuition fees. Suddenly UK higher education […]
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