Ranking other academic courses might make universities more aware that students and future employers are a market to compete for, not to ignore.
We speak to universities staff and mature students about what can be done to help make universities more accessible to older students.
The strategy, he said, was to "make universities more selective, because at least in the short term the country doesn't have the resources to greatly enlarge its capacity in terms of the number of universities".
In Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, where devolved administrations keep fees down for local and EU students, expansion is equally unaffordable.Moreover, reforms intended to make universities more responsive to student demand look increasingly bizarre.
Johnson's speech signalled the government's determination to use its new teaching excellence framework (TEF) to make universities more responsive to students, and upbraided colleges for the "highly variable" quality of undergraduate teaching.
Clegg sought to press home the case for higher tuition fees today by insisting the plans will make universities "more effective engines of social mobility" and that the policy will "stand the test of time", as he embarked on a last-ditch offensive to dispel "unhelpful myths", notably that the new funding system will worsen social mobility.
This is the reason because organizational and cultural changes to make universities more entrepreneurial are necessary, as argued in the TH approach.
Beyond the UK, the Society of Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) has initiated the Support Higher Education to Integrate Learning Analytics (SHEILA) project to make universities more 'student data informed' and to build a Europe-wide policy development framework for learning analytics in HE 'that promotes formative assessment and personalised learning' (SoLAR, 2016).
Greek scientists are angry and incredulous at what they see as a double-pronged government attack on the country's research system: the confiscation of research funding to plug a hole in Greece's ever worsening finances, and a new reform of higher education that they say will make universities more politicized and less meritocratic.
