Keisha McNeil
October 22, 2010
3:30pm
For months, Britain's Universities and it's government have been going back and forth discussing issues concerning the cut backs of funding that it receives from public sector cost. The government will announce next week about how much money it plans on cutting, bringing the universities worst fears of losing some of its funding come to reality. Currently Britain's universities get about $22.4 billion a year from its government making students from the European Union paying a tuition of only$5,260. Professor Steve Smith, who is a representative form the higher learning institutions of Britain states "that the government was likely to cut about eighty percent of the country's $6.2 billion it pays a year for university teachers and about $1.6 billion from it's $6.4 billion funding it provides for research." After the cuts are made the universities will have to raise their tuition fees in order to keep some of their teachers and resources for researching with in the universities. The universities have begin to lay off teachers, reduce the size of the classrooms and have shut down departments. The Swansea University in Wales have already proposed cutting their language department staff from two-twenty to ten teachers and Middlesex University have decide to close its philosophy department. The teachers and researchers have become very upset over how little money the have been offered and for future financing for research.
While reading this article a question comes to mind "How important is higher education now to Britain government?" The government gave the universities a security blanket for higher education making it top priority for students to be able to attend school with out worrying about tuition. Now it seems to just be taken their security away with out a warning by throwing them into the streets to defend for themselves. The government should have had gradually taken funding form the schools and gave them a head ups instead of striping them so fast so they could have planned for a better future for their teachers and students.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/16/world/europe/16britain.html?ref=education
1 comment:
The situation is unfortunate for the British citizens going to school at the universities that's included in your post. It makes me think of where the money is going if it's being taken from the schools, which is one of the most important areas of funding there is in any part of the world.
General funding in countries like Britain and the United States is indeed systematic in flow, meaning funding has to be in the precise places for citizens to be satisfied.
Keisha, if you're still working on the funding for British schools, then why don't you look up some of the things that are being funded even more now that these colleges are losing money. See where the money for these colleges are going now, if you're interested in doing that.
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