Author
Christopher Newfield
Professor of Literature and American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Christopher Newfield teaches at the University of California at Santa Barbara and is the author of The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them, recently published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
2 pieces
Newest first, since November 2015
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The real value of abolishing tuition fees in England
There are lots of good reasons for the higher education sector to support a proposal to abolish tuition fees. Christopher Newfield makes the case for reframing the debate about university funding in the UK and the US.
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Are UK universities being cast academically adrift?
On the publication of the Green Paper and the announcement of the TEF, US academic Christopher Newfield offers the UK policy discussion a view from the recent debates in America about learning gain, metrics and quality.