@ David Lammy
Labour MP for Tottenham and Minister of State for Innovation Universities and Skills Oct 2008 - May 2010
Why is poilcy so focused on the needs of society, govenment, business (which is not a bad thing) but not clearly enough on the real needs of students themselves? Research, high quality teaching, increasing workforce... Show more »Why is poilcy so focused on the needs of society, govenment, business (which is not a bad thing) but not clearly enough on the real needs of students themselves? Research, high quality teaching, increasing workforce skills, & enabling business to innovate all put industry and society at the centre not the individual student (who incresingly pays more and more!) - the only obvious policy execption to this is the widening participating agenda.
Surely university policy must more clearly serve students and that means at the very least mentioning them when it comes to policy, don't you think? Policy currently seems to skirt around them not truly focus on them. Show less »