Stefan Collini reviews ‘Everything for Sale’ by Roger Brown, with Helen Carasso and ‘The Great University Gamble’ by Andrew McGettigan · LRB 24 October 2013
▻http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n20/stefan-collini/sold-out
Everything for Sale? The Marketisation of UK Higher Education by Roger Brown, with Helen Carasso, Routledge, 235 pp, £26.99, February, ISBN 978 0 415 80980 1
BuyThe Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education by Andrew McGettigan Pluto, 215 pp, £16.99, April, ISBN 978 0 7453 3293 2
It’s time for the criticism to stop. Whatever you think about the changes to higher education that have been made in recent years, in particular the decision in the autumn of 2010 largely to replace public funding of teaching with student fees, this is now the system we’ve got. Carping about the principle or sniping at the process is simply unhelpful: it antagonises ministers and officials, thereby jeopardising future negotiations, and it wins little sympathy from the media and wider public. This country is in desperate need of jobs and of economic growth, and in higher education as in every other sphere we are now competing in a global market. So pipe down, and let’s all focus on making this system work as effectively as possible.
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