Examination of Witnesses (Questions 120
- 121)
WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY 2009
PROFESSOR DAVID
BAKER, MS
PAT BACON,
AND PROFESSOR
JOHN CRAVEN
Q120 Chairman: The issue of funding
is absolutely crucial to this whole argument and I just wanted
briefly to put this to all the panel. Are you saying that you
want part-time HE students to be funded on a par with full-time
HE students? Is that what we are saying?
Ms Bacon: It is certainly what
I am saying. We need to get to a stage where, as the jargon has
it, the funding is "mode-free". There is also an issue
about funding both for first-step learning, for people to get
onto the learning ladder—and I am thinking particularly
of mature students there—and about funding of Level 3.
Q121 Chairman: I am talking specifically
at Level 4.
Ms Bacon: Yes, I think that it
should be mode-free.
Professor Baker: Yes.
Professor Craven: Yes.
Chairman: That is a very interesting
note on which to end. Could I thank you all very much indeed.
I am sorry that we have rushed through the session, but there
is always so much to ask.
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