ALAN ATLEE, CANTERBURY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, ON EDUCATION

摘要

Three big ideas underpin the government's current plans for the reform of Higher Education funding in England. The first is a desire to define the value of education solely in terms of its future economic benefit to the individual. The second promotes the total financialisation of university funding, replacing state grants with subprime loans which students will use to trade their promise of future wages for a degree. Finally, the complete marketisation of the sector is intended to drive up standards and drive out unpopular or inefficient courses, faculties and entire universities. The imposition of this neoliberal ideology within the sector isn't new - what is, is the speed with which the government intends to 'complete the project'.