No One is Coming to Save Us
Alex Usher,
HESA,
Jun 13, 2024
Alex Usher paints a picture of generally declining government support for higher education since 1971. Through to 1996, this resulted in funding shortfalls altogether (this was ehen I was in higher ed). Since then, revenue generation has become the name of the game. But, he says - correctly, I think - this era is coming to an end. There's no support for continued tuition increases. And government has placed limits on international student recruitment. So institutions will have to focus on cutting costs. In the current model, this doesn't work - you can't cut your way to sustainability; each cut makes it more expensive to support the students that remain. The model - as I predicted in (checks) 1998 - has to change.
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