Author
Andrew McGettigan
Author and Researcher
Andrew McGettigan’s book ‘The Great University Gamble: money, markets and the future of higher education’ was published by Pluto Press in April 2013. He is a regular contributor to Radical Philosophy and blogs at Critical Education.
24 pieces
Newest first, since July 2011 · page 1 of 2
· Analysis
Is the new student loan system really fairer?
The government says its new student loan scheme will be cheaper for the taxpayer while the richest grads pay less. How? Gavan Conlon and Andrew McGettigan find the discounts
With Gavan Conlon
· Analysis
The fiscal illusion has gone – but what has replaced it?
The Office for National Statistics has published its view on how student loans should be treated in the national accounts. Andrew McGettigan takes a close look at the announcement.
· Long read
Begone, fiscal illusions: understanding student loans in the national deficit
With concerns gathering over the treatment of student loans within Public Sector Net Borrowing, both the Office of National Statistics and the Office for Budget Responsibility have published recommendations ahead of the
· Analysis
Lessons from LEO: time to think differently about subject funding
Creative Arts graduates make up 10% of all those captured by LEO, but are by far the lowest earners. If the sector doesn’t wise up, the government will start asking questions, argues Andrew McGettigan.
· Data
Why is there such a large gender pay gap for graduates?
Women graduates earn less than their male counterparts immediately after leaving university and in the vast majority of subjects. We pick this apart and suggest what role universities might have to play in fixing it.
With Catherine Boyd and Nona Buckley-Irvine
· Data
Digesting the Longitudinal Educational Outcome data
On the day the government releases LEO data showing graduate earnings over time, we take a first look at the data, what it shows and what’s in store as the agenda develops.
With Mark Leach and Ant Bagshaw
· Analysis
Ten things you might have missed about the White Paper
A few hours on from the White Paper’s publication, Andrew McGettigan lists ten crucial and under-reported elements that you might have missed.
· Analysis
The challengers (and challenges) in higher education market reform
The government’s new White Paper on higher education heralds a shakeup to the HE market with new ‘challenger institutions’ set to proliferate. Andrew McGettigan reviews the paper, it’s new measures for reform and all the
· Analysis
Human capital: interview with author of IFS graduate earnings study
On Wednesday the Institute for Fiscal Studies published the first report into graduate earnings – Andrew McGettigan discussed the report’s findings and their implications with one of the report’s authors: Jack Britton, S
· Analysis
Make Room! Make Room! Quality, new providers and the gateway conundrum
Andrew McGettigan on the new quality assessment model introduced by HEFCE, the Green Paper and their potentially overlapping or conflicting gateways.
· Analysis
Spending Review: Loans, RAB and the discount rate
Andrew McGettigan explains what the government has changed in its all-important treatment of student loans, and what implications this might have for the future.
· Analysis
Spending Review: Loan repayment freeze is a tax on social mobility
Twenty four hours after the Spending Review and the Chancellor’s announcement that the student loan repayment threshold will be frozen, Andrew McGettigan demolishes the policy – which he claims will be a tax on social mo
· Analysis
10 things you might have missed about the Green Paper
After the letting the coverage of the Green Paper digest for a few hours, here are 10 critical points about the plans you may have missed.
· Analysis
The accelerated level playing field
Andrew McGettigan casts a forensic eye over the Green Paper’s proposals on market entry and exit, degree awarding powers, alternative providers and the government’s desire to create a ‘level playing field’.
· Analysis
What IPPR gets wrong about loans
There has been an interesting debate about the IPPR’s report ‘A Critical Path’ on this blog and elsewhere over recent days. My problems with the IPPR report relate to the lack of care taken with respect to loan accountin
· Blog
Thatcher’s children seek ‘independence’ for universities
The Thatcherite ‘Free Enterprise Group’ made up largely of 2010 intake MPs have published a report on higher education funding; ‘Completing the Reform, Freeing the Universities’. It argues that financial independence and
· People
NCH – new company structure
Private investment is about to boom in the UK and we need to be clear about the complex mechanisms being employed. Something bugs me about Anthony Grayling and the way he presents New College of the Humanities. Nothing i
· Analysis
‘Seriously deficient’: or Whither London Met? or Where’s Willetts?
On Wednesday night the news broke at 10pm: the UK Border Agency confirmed the revocation of London Metropolitan University’s ‘highly trusted sponsor’ status. This means that London Met is no longer able bring in non-EU s
· Comment
London Met – outsourcing? or something else?
I carry with me at all times a 2009 report for Universities UK prepared by the legal firm Eversheds. Why? On page 7 of ‘Developing future university structures’, you will find a diagram entitled ‘A model for university b
· Analysis
The Pearson BSc
The media today has been covering the public launch of Pearson College. The new offering from the education publishing giant sees it move into full undergraduate degrees from the HNCs and HNDs it offers through its subsi