England does not need another major higher education funding review because the way to overhaul the system to make it more sustainable for universities is already known, according to a former education minister.
Justine Greening, secretary of state for education between 2016 and 2018, told Times Higher Education’s Campus Live event that fixing the finance system should be seen as “absolutely imperative” for any new government following the next general election but there was no need to “waste more time”.
An exercise such as the Augar review of post-18 education did not need to be repeated, argued Ms Greening, who was in government alongside former universities minister Lord Johnson when Theresa May, prime minister at the time, set up the review.
“I think we know what the answers probably are, and frankly we’ve probably wasted enough time,” she told the event in Liverpool.
