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Articles by David Willetts
If elected, I will use my vast experience of higher education to help Oxford lead the way through the big challenges facing UK HE, says David Willetts
One of the advantages of a large majority is that there is more generous political cover for experts brought into ministerial roles, says David Willetts
Universities are struggling financially amid frozen domestic fees and growing political hostility to international students. But while the public finances are stretched, July¡¯s general election could allow a policy reset. In the second of two articles (read part one here), three senior figures suggest what a new government might realistically do
Frozen fee levels must rise eventually, but universities need to deliver efficiency gains through hybrid learning, says David Willetts
Graduate employment outcomes are obviously crucial. Yet we must be wary of judging courses and institutions on the basis of a few useful but misleading metrics
David Willetts welcomes a bold account of how the battle between democracy and meritocracy has transformed higher education in the UK
?9,000 fees permitted per-student funding to rise even at the height of austerity, argues former minister David Willetts
Falling UK graduate wages reflect not too many students but a flexible labour market¡¯s post-crash adjustment, argues David Willetts
The advent of datasets linking graduates¡¯ income to their student records has fuelled calls for certain courses and universities to be excluded from public funding. But, ahead of England¡¯s Augar review of post-18 education, the minister who commissioned the longitudinal education outcomes project, David Willetts, warns against such abuses of the data
The former higher education minister on why the English sector must keep growing, the ¡®barbarism¡¯ at the heart of the schools system and how to tackle negativity about universities
Andrew Adonis¡¯s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts
Book of the week: the former universities minister reviews James Axtell's account of the institutions that educate the US elite
More can be done in the UK to encourage study abroad, but the anglophone world may continue to attract the lion¡¯s share, says David Willetts
Are ¡®invented¡¯ narratives the way to understand demographic shifts? David Willetts is unconvinced
Debate over the RAB charge is misleading. England's higher education funding system is sound and flexible, argues the former universities minister
David Willetts defends the government's higher education policies against Stefan Collini's accusations of reductionist consumerism
