For-profit universities have failed in the US, so why import them here?
Sally Hunt argues that the experience of the USA in its experiment with for-profit universities shows the danger of importing that model to the UK
Sally Hunt
Website Sally is the general secretary of the University and College Union. She writes for Left Foot Forward on higher education.
Message to Cameron: Talk to us, not TV news
Sally Hunt writes about her and her members’ perspective on the strikes.
Record NEET figures the result of Osborne’s ignorant, short-sighted ideology
The number of young people not working or learning is now at record levels and there is little to suggest the situation will improve, says Sally Hunt.
University applications down 9 per cent on 2011
Dan Ashley writes about the ongoing disaster that is the government’s tuition fee policy; now, they are apparently surprised that applications have gone down.
Anti-foreign student rhetoric risks real harm to our global reputation
Government anti-immigration sound bites risk doing real harm to our universities and our reputation on the world stage, writes UCU General Secretary Sally Hunt.
Rich kids will pay less student debt than middle classes
Rich people will end up paying back less than the middle classes for tuition fees because they will clear their debts quicker and avoid bigger interest payments.
The widening gap between the educational haves and have nots
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and College Union, on a new report showing “Two Britains”, with the gap between the haves and have nots widening.
Coalition policy is a programme not for social mobility but for social engineering
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, writes about how the coalition’s policies are a programme for social engineering – not social mobility.
Coalition must reconsider privatisation of Higher Education before it’s too late
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, calls on the government to reconsider the privatisation of higher education before it’s too late.
The rich should not be allowed to buy their way into the best universities
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, warns against David Willetts’s plans to allow the rich to buy their way into the best universities.