The current debate on HE funding and the nigh-inevitability of cuts assumes that there are gross savings to be had. The problem with this is that the big expansion in the 1980s and 1990s was largely unfunded; student numbers went up and total funding stayed the same, or to put it a different way, per capita student funding went down.
Many ministers went to Oxbridge and they therefore have very little idea about how the majority of universities operate.
The sector can make savings, but only by cutting entire departments or whole institutions, not by making lots of further 'efficiency savings' as these have already been made.
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Date: 2010-07-22 09:51 am (UTC)Many ministers went to Oxbridge and they therefore have very little idea about how the majority of universities operate.
The sector can make savings, but only by cutting entire departments or whole institutions, not by making lots of further 'efficiency savings' as these have already been made.
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