Former Director, Social Market Foundation
7 pieces
Newest first, since December 2013
· Comment
The left is lost on higher education
Emran Mian argues that the left is offering no constructive alternative to the government’s market-led agenda in HE, and thus have very little of use to add to the debate.
· Comment
Can the TEF survive the arguments made against it?
With the debate about the TEF now truly up and running following the publication of the government’s Green Paper, Emran Mian sets out the some of the stronger and weaker cases against the new framework.
· Comment
Contemplating a Brexit for UK HE
Getting ahead of the EU referendum debates to come, Emran Mian picks apart four main arguments from the HE sector’s campaign to stay in the EU.
· Comment
Debating free speech in higher education
As the Free Speech University Rankings launch, Emran Mian looks a the controversial new rankings and argues that they provide an important new service to sector by allowing students to make a choice about the intellectua
· Comment
Who’s afraid of student loans?
A new study by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS) on student loan costs published today will kick off a new round of suggestions on what to do next for higher education funding. Emran Mian maintains that we should be
· Comment
Learning to love the student loan book
There are two ways to argue for more student places in higher education. The first is easy, just remove the word ‘higher’. So the question is: shall we have some more education? The second is harder – we have to explain
· Analysis
Selling the loan book
The Government has said today that it will make £20bn of asset sales between 2014 and 2020. £12bn of the total is to come from the student loan book. That’s about a third of the total book. Emran Mian takes a look at the