Re: An interesting, national development in Higher Education (attachment) ?

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Thanks for this Woody. The 80% cut in teaching funds to universities (the underlying reason behind rise in student fees) will not hit health students, because they are funded from a different budget, although I don't think the powers that be have quit worked out yet how to deal with nursing degree students who until now have been funded through the same means as other undergraduates. There is also some recognition, although I don't know the details, of the importance of the 'hard sciences' and technology, topics that more readily attract funding from employers. However, the impact on the basic knowledge base that we all use, whether social science (including psychology, sociology, geography, economics etc), arts or humanities looks set to be pretty profound, with long term incalculable adverse effects. best wishesOn 21 Jan 2011, at 15:40, Caan, Woody wrote:See: http://www.campaignforsocialscience.org.uk/ ________________________________~-- EMERGING EXCELLENCE: In the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008, more than 30% of our submissions were rated as 'Internationally Excellent' or 'World-leading'. Among the academic disciplines now rated 'World-leading' are Allied Health Professions & Studies; Art & Design; English Language & Literature; Geography & Environmental Studies; History; Music; Psychology; and Social Work & Social Policy & Administration. Visit www.anglia.ac.uk/rae for more information. This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the above named recipient(s)only and may be privileged. If they have come to you in error you must take no action based on them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone please reply to this e-mail to highlight the error and then immediately delete the e-mail from your system. Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Anglia Ruskin University. Although measures have been taken to ensure that this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. Please note that this message has been sent over public networks which may not be a 100% secure communications Email has been scanned for viruses by Altman Technologies' email management service - www.altmanco.uk/emailsystems <winmail.dat> Cowleysarahcowley183@...http://myprofile.cos.com/S124021COn