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TV bidding and BS juries in biggest shake-up since Browne (Times Higher Education, 1 April 2011, Avril Olof )
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Just six months after Lord Browne’s landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its proposals for university funding.
The plans set out today by David Willetts, the universities and science minister, include a raft of new strategies for measuring institutional performance and research excellence.
Under the first proposal, which is based on David Cameron’s “Big Society” idea, a jury-duty system would be used to draft in “normal people” to assess university performance.
The BS juries would be chosen at random from a register of volunteers taking part in other Big Society projects, and would take an overview of each institution’s strengths.
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