Tuesday 3 November 2009

Chinese Take Aways

So, Dame Peter Mandelson has now set his sights on our Universities. He says that the output should reflect the needs of its customers (the students) and business requirements. If our universities were not providing excellent, world class education I do not understand why demand for places from overseas students constantly outstrips supply. UK business schools consistently punch above their weight in the global marketplace. Oxford, Cambridge and UCL have set the benchmark for excellence for centuries and institutions such as Warwick have come from building site to seriously compete with the best in the world in less than fifty years.

Mandelsons interest in our manufacturing sector has resulted in it being 'lifted and shifted' to China. Is this what he wants for our higher education sector?

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