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            * It’s more effective to finance universities using public resources, says Prof. Hotson
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            The newly established Council for the Defence of British Universities [ URL "http://cdbu.o

            organisation created to help represent the interests of the academic world, has stated tha
            following goals: prioritisation of education, defence of traditional academic values and g
            for universities. The Council was introduced to Czech academics by Prof. Howard Hotson, a 

            at Oxford University, during his lecture at the Czech Academy of Science on Tuesday 27th N
            Two weeks ago, the main representatives of British academia founded a politically independ
            help universities face the interests of the corporations and smothering bureaucracy. Accor

            in the debate about the future of the public university education it is necessary to prese
            grounded data and to defend it using arguments acknowledged by politicians and businessmen

            public.
            Professor Hotson informed the auditorium about the likelihood of English universities losi
            in the aim to submit to short-term economic interests. The current radical reforms of the 

            educational system are based on the conservative ideological that privatization brings bet
            for less money. This idea however is strongly tested by statistics from elsewhere in the w
            effective higher education systems are those financed by the public, as is the case in Swi

            and in Great Britain, before the government decided to abolish this system overnight. By c
            education funded by the private sector have been shown to be less efficient, as in Japan, 
            United States of America.

            According to Hotson, universities in England belong to the most efficient institutions des
            far less financial support than universities in countries like Estonia, Slovenia or Hungar
            amount of support is 30% below the average of other OECD nations. Based on research by the

            "http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/science-and-technology/main-science-
            indicators/volume-2010/issue-1_msti-v2010-1-en-fr"] , it’s also clear that the financial c
            of the industry to research and development are decreasing. When comparing the list of the

            universities internationally, using university rankings like the Times Higher Education Wo
            Ranking [ URL "http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/ "] , Briti
            are still four times more successful than American ones. The United States does however sp

            times more on higher education than England.
            Its surprising that the above statistics are not reflected in the well known Brown Report“
            Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance [ URL "http://webarchive.nationalar

            hereview.independent.gov.uk/hereview/ "] ”, Prof. Hotson remarked. The report analyzed the
            of taxpayers, students, graduates and employers to financing the university system, and co
            feasible to increase university fees in England to some of the highest in the world.

            The transformation of the university education system in England is, according to Hotson, 
            to the right-wing government, and that it cannot be expected that  the next government wil
            politicians have been aiming for this over the last thirty years.

            The lecture of Prof. Howard Hotson, Professor of History from the University of Oxford, on
            global university crisis was organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the  Czech Academ
            co-author of the document ”In Defence of Public Higher Education“ which was published in S

            one of the main critics of the governmental proposals of reforms of the British universiti
            he is writing a book dedicated to the problem of the marketing in of the public university
            book will be published by the British Academy of Science at the beginning of next year.