{"id":2400,"date":"2012-10-23T11:14:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T10:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2012-10-23T11:14:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T10:14:21","slug":"uk-postgraduate-education-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/23\/uk-postgraduate-education-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"UK postgraduate education failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A report by The Higher Education Commission states that the UK postgraduate system is failing to generate a skilled workforce that industry needs and is geared towards attracting overseas students. Remember, overseas students pay larger fees and are a large source of income for a university.<\/p>\n<p>The overseas postgraduate students has increased in recent years, up 200% since 1999. There has been a rise of 18% for UK postgraduate students.<\/p>\n<p>In short the UK economy needs more &#8220;home-grown talent&#8221; rather than continually looking abroad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Westminster<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report will be launched on Monday 29 October in the Palace of Westminster. Speakers will include<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr <strong>Graham Spittle<\/strong>, Inquiry Chair (Vice President of IBM and former Chair of the Technology Strategy Board)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rt Hon David Willetts MP<\/strong>, Minister of State for Universities and Science (invited)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shabana Mahmood MP<\/strong>, Shadow Minister for Higher Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"postgrad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.policyconnect.org.uk\/hec\/sites\/pol1-006\/files\/he_commission_-_postgraduate_education_2012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Postgraduate Education: An Independent Inquiry by the Higher Education Commission<\/a> (opens PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by The Higher Education Commission states that the UK postgraduate system is failing to generate a skilled workforce that industry needs and is geared towards attracting overseas students. Remember, overseas students pay larger fees and are a large source of income for a university. The overseas postgraduate students has increased in recent years, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2012\/10\/23\/uk-postgraduate-education-failing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK postgraduate education failing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}