It's been obvious for a long time that the massive growth in franchised provision - to the extent that Global Banking School Limited is now, from nowhere, the largest provider of undergraduate education in England and Canterbury Christ Church University the largest registering provider - isn't a great use of public money.
While Covid-19 turbocharged the issues via facilitating huge growth in blended learning and relaxation of face-to-face attendance requirement which has allowed greater fraud and misuse, the underlying problem is the previous Conservative Government's desire embodied in The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 to, as the-then Universities Minister Jo Johnson put it, "break open the higher education closed shop" https://conservativehome.com/2017/01/10/jo-johnson-we-must-break-open-the-higher-education-closed-shop/
This is rather glossed over in the piece with the politicking attempting to place the blame for what will turn into a huge scandal with probably billions of pounds of public money lost to fraud and misuse over the last five years or so on the current government after the last government first ignored the problem and then kicked it into the long grass so it wasn't their problem.
Superb Neil. Can you reduce this ti say 3 sides of A4 to make for a briefer read to digest the most important issues so up i can then appreciate the longer article?
Have you had much support from other MPs in response to this.
You have certainly put a lot of effort into it, I admire your determination.
It’s a massive scandal - deeply depressing that all this public money is being wasted like this, especially when there are so many decent courses out there (eg Makers Academy) that actually boost earning potential but don’t qualify for any government support
If you click through to the IFS report linked here, you will find earnings for men vs women broken down by subject graphed on pp. 40-41.
You put your finger on a major issue here - women earn less than men who read for degrees in the same subject and a lot of women who read for degrees in high-earning subjects earn less than men who read for degrees in lower-earning subjects.
It's been obvious for a long time that the massive growth in franchised provision - to the extent that Global Banking School Limited is now, from nowhere, the largest provider of undergraduate education in England and Canterbury Christ Church University the largest registering provider - isn't a great use of public money.
While Covid-19 turbocharged the issues via facilitating huge growth in blended learning and relaxation of face-to-face attendance requirement which has allowed greater fraud and misuse, the underlying problem is the previous Conservative Government's desire embodied in The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 to, as the-then Universities Minister Jo Johnson put it, "break open the higher education closed shop" https://conservativehome.com/2017/01/10/jo-johnson-we-must-break-open-the-higher-education-closed-shop/
This is rather glossed over in the piece with the politicking attempting to place the blame for what will turn into a huge scandal with probably billions of pounds of public money lost to fraud and misuse over the last five years or so on the current government after the last government first ignored the problem and then kicked it into the long grass so it wasn't their problem.
Superb Neil. Can you reduce this ti say 3 sides of A4 to make for a briefer read to digest the most important issues so up i can then appreciate the longer article?
Have you had much support from other MPs in response to this.
You have certainly put a lot of effort into it, I admire your determination.
It’s a massive scandal - deeply depressing that all this public money is being wasted like this, especially when there are so many decent courses out there (eg Makers Academy) that actually boost earning potential but don’t qualify for any government support
Is any data disaggregated by sex. Making an assumption that if women take out time to have children this will affect their ability to repay loans.
If you click through to the IFS report linked here, you will find earnings for men vs women broken down by subject graphed on pp. 40-41.
You put your finger on a major issue here - women earn less than men who read for degrees in the same subject and a lot of women who read for degrees in high-earning subjects earn less than men who read for degrees in lower-earning subjects.