Producing work-ready graduates: the role of the entrepreneurial university
Nigel Culkin and Sofie Mallick
The University of Hertfordshire
Introduction
One of the biggest losers in the UK government’s 2010 Spending Review (2010–14) has been higher education. As widely forecast in the run-up to the Review, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) will reduce its resource budget by 25%. Taking into account anticipated receipts, the cut to capital spending by 2014–15 will be 44%. In line with the recommendations contained in the Browne Review of higher education funding and student finance (2010), the government will change the...