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After the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 they became independent universities, which meant they could award their own degrees. The comparable institutions in Scotland were collectively referred to as Central Institutions .
- Inter-University Valuing
- Intra-University Valuing
- Career Currencies
- On Second Thoughts, No It’S not. It Doesn’T.
Some things have got better. Universities have been enabled to cite metrics that are intended to reflect the quality of learning and teaching. These have become an important, albeit inevitably imperfect, means for students to make informed choices about where to study. We’re all suspicious of metrics, in particular when they result in league tables...
The story is less satisfactory on the inside. Creating a good learning and teaching environment for students is a time-consuming, resource-hungry, expert task. Every department has a set of academics who focus their time and effort in that direction. Some devote whole careers to doing so. But as a rule those are the workers who end up being valued ...
There is also an unchallenged, implicit reasoning that goes something like this. Academics should be experts in a field. To be an expert in a field you must have done empirical research in that field. Therefore, as a rule, being research active is more or less an essential feature of the best academic careers. The problem is, it’s simply not the ca...
A more capacious view of academic careers would be welcome and would benefit the sector. The ideas on “scholarship” set out by Boyer in 1990become relevant in this matter. “Discovery” (research) is one aspect of the kind of scholarship that we should be valuing in higher education. But there is a much wider range of activities that need doing acros...
- Andy Grayson
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Jan 25, 2022 · Under the Act, polytechnics became independent statutory corporations able to employ their own staff and hold their own assets. The NAB was replaced by a funding council for the polytechnics and higher education colleges whose funds were provided by central government.
A few years later, the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act converted polytechnics into universities. Thirty years on, I have been thinking about what it’s been like to work in the redefined sector in the last three decades.
Mar 17, 2022 · Yet the 34 polytechnics to which a Conservative government gave degree-awarding powers and redesignated as universities in 1992 are still sometimes referred to as “former polytechnics” – and very often as “post-92” institutions.
Mar 16, 2021 · Polytechnics and colleges became corporations, independent from local governments and directly funded by a new Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council (PCFC). The UGC, considered too accommodating to universities, was also replaced by the University Funding Council (UFC).
Aug 29, 2020 · For instance, former polytechnics have challenged existing research universities in the UK, France, and Germany, while simultaneously universities have become more profession-oriented and geared towards collaboration, co-creation, and impact on society (Delahousse and Bomke 2015).
