University and college teaching funds cut

Posted 22 Jul 2010

Universities and colleges in the UK are facing funding cuts of £82 million in total, which could affect their quality of teaching.

Therefore taking a TEFL course could be an option for youngsters who want to avoid the chaos that may be caused by these cuts.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce), which distributes money on behalf of the government, announced on July 20th that £82 million will be taken from universities’ teaching funds.

This amounts to a one per cent reduction in the amount of money universities were promised in March and some, such as Manchester, could lose £1 million.

Some have complained that the financial cuts have been announced too late as the financial year started in April.

Professor Simon Gaskell, principal of Queen Mary, University of London, told the Guardian that the uncertainty created by the cuts would be “crippling”.

He said: “It is ironic that universities have been urged to plan well when what immediately follows is a sabotaging of that in the current financial year.”

Youngsters can avoid this uncertainty by undertaking a TEFL course in order to teach English abroad.

David Willetts, education minister, does not want the entire focus in this country to be on the academic route so youngsters have other options – not just university.
 

Category: Teaching and Learning