{"id":5990,"date":"2014-04-17T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T07:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2014-04-17T07:33:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T07:33:45","slug":"hea-soon-to-be-free-from-public-influence-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/04\/17\/hea-soon-to-be-free-from-public-influence-and-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"HEA soon to be free from public influence and accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=5978&amp;action=edit\">wrote<\/a> the other day about the steady reductions in tax-payer funding from to the Higher Education Academy [HEA] from the Higher Education Funding Council for England [Hefce]. \u00a0 One consequence of this is that when the funding stops entirely, so will the letters to HEA from Hefce telling it what its priorities might be: \u00a0There are consequences to this cutting loose of the HEA: \u00a0No money \u2013 No contract \u2013 No letter \u2013 No guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Given that these letters, and the guidance (instructions) they contain, have essentially come down from the government (with Hefce as courier), this means that the HEA will, in effect, be free of a major source of political and public influence, which seems odd, given its role. \u00a0And where influence falls away, so does accountability. \u00a0What will a privatised HEA look like? \u00a0Meaner and leaner, no doubt. \u00a0What will it do? \u00a0Will it have even less interest in sustainability? \u00a0We shall see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote the other day about the steady reductions in tax-payer funding from to the Higher Education Academy [HEA] from the Higher Education Funding Council for England [Hefce]. \u00a0 One consequence of this is that when the funding stops entirely,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}