The Dearing Report, formally known as the reports of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education, is a series of major reports into the future of
Higher Education in the United Kingdom, published in 1997. The report was commissioned by the UK government and was the largest review of higher education in the UK since the
Robbins Committee in the early 1960s. The principal author was Sir
Ronald Dearing, the
Chancellor
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of the
University of Nottingham
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Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...
. It made 93 recommendations concerning the funding, expansion, and maintenance of academic standards.
The title "The Dearing Report" is also often given to the 2001 report "The Way Ahead: Church of England schools in the new millennium" which was chaired by Lord Dearing.
Findings
The report recommended that undergraduate tuition change from being funded entirely by grants from the government to a mixed system in which
tuition fees, supported by low interest government loans, are raised. It recommended expanding sub-degree courses and
degree level courses at university, proposing that there was sufficient demand from employers for applicants with higher qualifications for natural growth of higher education. The report also proposed giving teaching staff some amount of training in teaching during their probationary period. It further proposes a system in which credit earned at one institution could be transferred to another.
Committee members
;1997 report
[
* Sir John Arbuthnott
* Brenda Dean
* Sir Ronald Dearing (Chairman)
* Sir Geoffrey Holland
* Sir Ronald Oxburgh
* David E. Potter
*Sir George Quigley
* Sir William Stubbs
* Sir Richard Sykes
* Sir David Watson
* Sir David Weatherall
;2001 report
* Lord Dearing
*The Rev John Hall
]
See also
*Browne Review
The Browne Review or Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance was a review to consider the future direction of higher education funding in England.
It was launched on 9 November 2009 and published its findings on 12 Octo ...
References
External links
The Dearing ReportBBC article about Dearing
History of higher education in the United Kingdom
Reports of the United Kingdom government
1997 in the United Kingdom
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