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'We should, by now, understand that universities can't produce completely "work-ready" employees any more than workplaces can take over education'

Article Abstract:

Issues relating to the UK government's strategy of getting higher education to learn from business are examined from the point of view that what higher education should do is stick to its core function. It is argued that despite what the government thinks in its latest white paper on higher education, educational institutions cannot produce employees that are completely "workplace-ready" in the same way that workplaces are not capable of offering the same sort of planned, timetabled and examined education that is available in an educational institute.

Social policy

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'Either the Tories really can't add up or they have found some magic source of funding. Incredibly, this seems to be what they believe...'

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An analysis of promises made by the Conservative Party to provide students in the UK with more funding at no extra cost to the taxpayer. The plans are criticised as being laughable and it is suggested that the Conservatives invest in a pocket calculator to enable them to do their sums properly and perhaps even try and develop a few principles while they are checking their sums.

Government expenditures, Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Education, Higher, Higher education, Government finance

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'Tuition fees in Sweden is a policy that dare not speak its name.... Higher Education must be free to anyone who is accepted'

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An analysis of the level of interest that Sweden has been taking in the recent reforms to the higher education sector that have taken place in the United Kingdom. The problems faced by the Swedish higher education sector mirror those in the UK and Sweden is looking on with interest to see how well the reforms enacted by the UK government work.

Sweden, Educational reform

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