It is a campaign that started out in October 2010 they fight against the cuts to education funding and fee increases. They organise local protests, teach-ins and mobilise for national demonstration. It is considered to be a part of growing protest of University staff, lecturers, students and 6th formers, each and everyone of them are determined to defeat the funding cuts of the University and fee increases the government have agreed to.
"75% cuts to the education budget > fees of up to £9000 > free school meals scrapped > EMA discarded. Our politicians have lied to us; the Lib Dems were planning to break their tuition fee pledges even as they made them. The Tories hid their post-election agenda behind the vague rhetoric of ‘big society’."
Their latest post comtains insightful information about the National Student Survey. They believe that this survey is a blunt instrument, simply wasting our precious time. It's a bad quantitative metric fail, the student has to choose between numbers of 1 to 5 to measure their student experience at University. These results are collected and fed into the national survey, where all the universities are measured against each other.
It can be considered to be a conspiration, to marketise higher education, drawing individuals to attend higher education. Of course this a positive outcome, but there is also negative outcome, the statics provides information to the management, and these people decide whom to make redundant. The administrators of NSS do not take into account that quantities of experince are simply very different in each and every different universities.
Overall, in my opinion CDE is a very good blog to follow, their posts are innovative and aimed at individuals in the educational sector. It makes one think outside of the box about what the government is providing for us, and whether if we blindly accept it or not.
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