Producing work-ready graduates: the role of the entrepreneurial university

UK universities are having to come to terms with the double whammy of a 2010 Spending Review that will see budgets reduced from £7.1 billion to £4.2 billion by 2014, and the Browne Review of higher education funding and student finance, which argues that those who benefit (i.e.

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...

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