13 December 2017 
Matt Sisson, Projects and Membership Manager
Analysis on Wonkhe points to institutional subscriptions for the OfS are likely to be much higher than initially outlined in the OfS consultation document. After crunching the numbers, it believes that OfS could start life with an £8m deficit, and it will be HEI subscriptions that will make up the shortfall.
The government has introduced a consultation on the provision of accelerated (2-year) degree courses. The commentary focus has been (isn’t it always?) on the maximum headline fee amount, but there are more considered thoughts from Wonkhe and HEPI.
Friday’s National Audit Office report on university VfM was unfortunately narrowly drawn around student fees, and the responding press coverage isn’t positive. Here’s the Guardian’s take, while the Telegraph and others have called it a ‘mis-selling’ scandal. If only universities did other things with their income, such as working towards curing terminal diseases…
Finally, our Job of the Week is for a Head of Finance at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. The successful candidate will, among other things, “support the Director of Operations & Finance in delivering a high quality, proactive financial management and management information service to managers across the institution and to the University Court and its committees and to external stakeholders.” The deadline for applications is the 8th January, 2018. There are lots of other vacancies listed on the BUFDG site here.
