A former director of the London School of Economics has used a House of Lords debate to attack the government’s higher education policies, saying they risk “chaotic consequences” including the closure of universities.
Labour peer Lord Giddens, who brought the debate on 13 October entitled Universities: Impact of Government Policy, said ministers appeared to be pursuing policies of “ill-considered, untutored radicalism” that were not based in proper research and had “imponderable outcomes”.
The academic, who advised former prime minister Tony Blair and is professor of sociology at LSE, said the reforms would leave England as a “global outrider” with one of the lowest levels of public support for higher education in the industrialised world.
He said the “ideological thrust” of the Browne Review should have been rejected and instead tuition fees only gradually raised alongside the maintenance of direct public support for universities, due to their “massive” beneficial impact on society.
“Universities are not a sort of supermarket where education can be chosen like a washing powder off the shelf. Students are not simply con
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Only 32% of IT leaders report being effective at workforce planning for large IT infrastructure projects, according to a recent survey performed by TEKsystems and CIO magazine. Although most IT leaders believe the success of any IT initiative depends on the people driving it, they often prioritize many other considerations ahead of workforce planning.
TEKsystems(R), a leading provider of IT staffing solutions, human capital management expertise and IT services, partnered with CIO magazine to evaluate the quality of workforce planning for large IT infrastructure projects. The survey was performed in May 2011 by IDG Research and reflects the perspectives of 231 technology executives nationwide.
Respondents admit that they’ve suffered multiple consequences of poor workforce planning. Sixty-nine percent indicate missed or delayed project deadlines, 62% report technical complications or rework and 58% say they’ve experienced lower levels of productivity as a result of ineffective workforce planning processes.
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A controversial plan to rank all A-level students according to the schools they attend – which would allow universities to discriminate against pupils from private schools – is unveiled today by Britain’s biggest exam board.
The radical proposal would allow universities to offer places to students from disadvantaged homes who showed potential but had performed less well in exams than their peers at better schools.
The plan by the exam board AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) provoked a storm of argument among academics and independent schools. There were immediate fears that candidates will be penalised simply because they achieve good A-level results at a good school. Independent schools are also alarmed that the approach could discriminate against disadvantaged pupils to whom they have offered scholarships.
Dr Tim Hands, headmaster of Magdalen College, Oxford, and co-chairman of the Independent Schools’ Universities Committee, said: “It is extraordinary. It
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