Motion
- Motion title
- Consumer choice and quality in higher education
- Session
- 2010-2011
- Meeting link
- HE conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2011
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- HE25
- Motion text
HESC rejects the consumerist approach to quality and standards outlined in the Browne report, i. e. that price competition, a key information set and private providers will 'drive up quality'. HESC challenges the view that 'student satisfaction' and employment outcomes are valid indicators of the quality of courses.
HESC believes that the best way to ensure quality and standards in higher education is through good professional practice within an adequately funded system.
HESC calls on the Government:
to reverse the cuts in public funding for HE teaching
to support properly-resourced programmes of training and CPD
to involve staff, as well as students and vice-chancellors, in future plans for quality assurance.
HESC calls on the HEC, in consultation with NUS, to develop an alternative agenda for quality in its campaign over the forthcoming White Paper.
- Proposing body
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Higher education committee (HEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2011/H/05-28/070/HE25