UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future

UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future

The 2010 UK Coalition government published The Coalition: our programme for government, outlining ‘deficit reduction’ as the main priority for the Coalition’s fixed 5 years of government. The significance of this became apparent through the austerity measures in public expenditure and specifically s...

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Główni autorzy: Chalari, Athanasia, Sealey, Clive
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Wydane: Observatoire de la société britannique 2018
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UK austerity
undergraduate higher education funding
precarity
student maintenance loan
coalition government (2010)
subjective experience
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:osb_1949 https://doi.org/10.4000/osb.1949 urn:doi:10.4000/osb.1949 en https://journals.openedition.org/osb/1949 2018-01-26T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/is3n All rights reserved UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future Observatoire de la société britannique Université de Toulon info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1775-4135 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1957-3383 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/osb Chalari, Athanasia Sealey, Clive UK austerity undergraduate higher education funding precarity student maintenance loan coalition government (2010) subjective experience The 2010 UK Coalition government published The Coalition: our programme for government, outlining ‘deficit reduction’ as the main priority for the Coalition’s fixed 5 years of government. The significance of this became apparent through the austerity measures in public expenditure and specifically social policy expenditure. However, it is young people for whom austerity has had the most deleterious effects, with the policy changes in higher education funding in 2011 being emblematic. These changes included a tripling of undergraduate higher education (UHE) tuition fees paid by students from £ 3,000 to £ 9,000 per year, and an increase in means tested repayable maintenance loans of up to £ 5,500 for those living outside London. The government rationalised these changes as a way to pay for the increasing student population. As a consequence of these significant changes, the estimate of debt from the Institute for Fiscal Studies for students leaving UHE following these changes is over £ 44,000, nearly € 20,000 more than before the change (Crawford and Jin 2014). This empirical qualitative study aims to explore the ways in which UHE students in the UK have been affected by these policy measures. The study analyses students’ subjective experiences and responses to the UHE funding policy changes, and highlights in particular that these austerity policy changes to UHE student financing is impacting on younger generation in a way that has the potential to destabilize their personal and professional lives now and in the future. The study also discusses how in other European countries who may be affected by similar austerity measures.
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topic UK austerity
undergraduate higher education funding
precarity
student maintenance loan
coalition government (2010)
subjective experience
spellingShingle UK austerity
undergraduate higher education funding
precarity
student maintenance loan
coalition government (2010)
subjective experience
Chalari, Athanasia
Sealey, Clive
UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future
description The 2010 UK Coalition government published The Coalition: our programme for government, outlining ‘deficit reduction’ as the main priority for the Coalition’s fixed 5 years of government. The significance of this became apparent through the austerity measures in public expenditure and specifically social policy expenditure. However, it is young people for whom austerity has had the most deleterious effects, with the policy changes in higher education funding in 2011 being emblematic. These changes included a tripling of undergraduate higher education (UHE) tuition fees paid by students from £ 3,000 to £ 9,000 per year, and an increase in means tested repayable maintenance loans of up to £ 5,500 for those living outside London. The government rationalised these changes as a way to pay for the increasing student population. As a consequence of these significant changes, the estimate of debt from the Institute for Fiscal Studies for students leaving UHE following these changes is over £ 44,000, nearly € 20,000 more than before the change (Crawford and Jin 2014). This empirical qualitative study aims to explore the ways in which UHE students in the UK have been affected by these policy measures. The study analyses students’ subjective experiences and responses to the UHE funding policy changes, and highlights in particular that these austerity policy changes to UHE student financing is impacting on younger generation in a way that has the potential to destabilize their personal and professional lives now and in the future. The study also discusses how in other European countries who may be affected by similar austerity measures.
author Chalari, Athanasia
Sealey, Clive
author_facet Chalari, Athanasia
Sealey, Clive
author_sort Chalari, Athanasia
title UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future
title_short UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future
title_full UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future
title_fullStr UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future
title_full_unstemmed UK Students’ Subjective Experiences and Responses to Higher Education Austerity : Implications and Lessons for the Future
title_sort uk students’ subjective experiences and responses to higher education austerity : implications and lessons for the future
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