University World News, Policy Exchange Report: Higher, Further, Faster, More – Improving higher level professional and technical education
Today’s new kid on the block is a report published by Policy Exchange suggesting that more money is put into Further Education…at the expense of Higher Education. Universities UK has responded by saying that funding should not be ‘seen as an “either-or” choice’. University Alliance has said that while Further Education should be protected and supported, the report has overestimated the scale of university reserves, but also, the approach needed is for HEIs and FEIs to work in partnership, rather than advantaging one over the other. The report’s date of publication is strategically a month before the CSR, which may take the report’s recommendations into consideration.