#Universities are warning that they are heading towards a (renewed) financial crisis, as support from the EU evaporates, costs spiral & questions about how to fund #HigherEducation remained mired in the #culturewars...
What we see in international comparisons is that the UK has (so far) managed to maintain a world class university system on the cheap... but as economists say 'If something cannot go on for ever, it won't! - tie to fund HE properly, not by extracting more money from #students!
@ChrisMayLA6 That's an interesting chart. I wonder where Germany's high number comes from.
Does the number include public-funded research (which then would include the truly massive budget of the large off-campus research institutes that generally don't teach much)? Or is it because universities are free?
Because German academia is not paying its educators, that's for sure: 92% are on temp contracts with a hard, country-wide employment limit of 6 years post-PhD (see #ichbinhanna).
yes, that's an interesting issue; there is no detail on the German spend other than as a comparator country....
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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