susherwood posted: " Source: IfS (https://ifs.org.uk/publications/15953) Amidst rather a lot of other things, the British government put out its plans for higher education reforms last week. Understandably, these haven't had as much attention as would otherwise be the cas"
Amidst rather a lot of other things, the British government put out its plans for higher education reforms last week. Understandably, these haven't had as much attention as would otherwise be the case. Fortunately, I'm both not an IR scholar and not tied up in work meetings, since there's a strike going on, so I've got a bit of time to tell you about it all.
The plans are a much-belated response to a 2019 review of funding arrangements, which were in turn a result of a dodged shift towards a graduate tax about a decade ago. That system has cost more than planned, just as the current government (which was also the same government that dodged it all up in the first place) has come down firmly on the side of 'driving up standards' as its mantra for universities.
A priori, there's nothing wrong with wanting better universities: the issue is that the way the government is going about it doesn't really seem to stack up.
The model (as far as I can tell) is essentially one of stopping universities taking in students who won't benefit, then using piles of metrics to identify courses/institutions that don't do a good job with the students they have, then trying to pull back more of the funding cost from graduates.
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