Hefce plays down closures

Article Abstract:

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) has ruled out the creation of a "central command-and-control" system to protect academic subjects, such as maths, sciences and languages, that are deemed strategically important, declaring that the closure of university courses in the future would simply represent natural adjustments in the higher education market. Sir Howard Newby, chief executive of Hefce, argues that the creation of one or two national centres of excellence in these strategically important subjects would be preferable to trying to maintain facilities to provide these subjects across the country.

United Kingdom, Colleges & Universities, Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools, Colleges and universities, Universities and colleges, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Newby, Howard

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Secret offer to open market

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The European Union (EU) made a secret formal offer in June 2005 on the liberalisation of access to its various service markets, including higher education. Details of the proposal reveal that the EU has, to date, not been prepared to accept a significant opening up of its 25 national higher education markets to universities, colleges and other education service providers located outside the EU.

International economic relations, International aspects, European Union, International education, Trade policy

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Some stumbling on common ground

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An analysis of the efforts by the 40 signatories of the Bologna process to forge a common European higher education area by 2010 are examined. Progress in the process of turning centuries of diverse European academic traditions into one common pre-doctorate two-tier system of bachelors and masters degrees is shown to be patchy, with some countries further down the line than others.

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