English Universities in Crisis

Jefferson Frank was founding head of the Economics Department at Royal Holloway. Trained as a macroeconomist, Jeff has also extensively investigated the gender pay gap, BME and LGBTQ discrimination, inequality in the university sector, and the current funding and fees crisis. He is the author of The Responsible Economy (Routledge, 2014) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Norman Gowar, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of London, is a former Principal of Royal Holloway. He presented the first lecture ever to be broadcast by the Open University. He co-founded the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Student Complaints and was its first Chairman.Michael Naef is Reader in Economics at Royal Holloway. He works in experimental economics using weird and wonderful substances (testosterone, estrogen, sulpiride) to see what happens. He has published widely, including in Nature and the American Economic Review.

• IntroductionHow Did We Get Here?A Short Note On: The Case for Free Tuition and the Scottish ApproachMarkets Without CompetitionStakeholders and ExpendituresExpanding Numbers and Maintaining StandardsA Short Note On: Setting up the OIAWidening Participation and Student FinanceA Short Note On: The Open UniversityA Short Note On: The Case for Career Colleges: The US Model, by Lincoln E. FrankAdjusting to the Future

"An eloquent and convincing case that the changes in the funding of higher education since 2010 have taken the English university system in a fundamentally mistaken direction". Alasdair Smith, University of Sussex