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Covid‐19 and UK Universities
Author(s) -
Ahlburg Dennis A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12867
Subject(s) - rationalisation , covid-19 , higher education , government (linguistics) , political science , poaching , business , economics , economic growth , sociology , medicine , demography , population , linguistics , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Universities UK (UUK) has suggested that there may be very significant losses to higher education as a consequence of Covid‐19. However, losses are likely to be substantially lower than the potential losses estimated by UUK. But the magnitude of losses is very uncertain. The UUK’s proposal to restrict undergraduate enrolment per university to stop institutions poaching students is not in the interests of the most highly regarded universities, or that of students. Some rationalisation of the sector should be the price of further government support. Now is also the time to reconsider how university research is funded.