Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Information overload may give students even more cause for complaint

by Simon Baker for Times Higher Education

The government’s higher education White Paper puts forward a series of recommendations for information that ministers want universities to provide to students on top of the Key Information Sets that are already set for launch next year.

They include an “expectation” that institutions publish the results of internal evaluation surveys for courses; a call for data on the qualifications held by successful applicants to be revealed; and suggestions that prospective students should also be informed of likely class sizes and given details about the expertise of teaching staff.

David Palfreyman, director of the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, said the release of much more information would provide more “pegs” to hang grievances on, but could also make disputes more legalistic.

and so on and so forth!!

No comments: