EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report presents evidence and provides analysis of the consequences of changes to government policy and funding structures in higher education in the UK[1], in the fields of semedia, communications and cultural studies. The removal of the block teaching grant for subjects in arts, humanities and social sciences, along with the implementation of …Continue Reading
Peter Golding Northumbria University As members know, we have been responding to the public debate about the value of media studies and similar programmes in universities. Following the renewed questioning of such programmes by ministers last year MeCCSA issued a guide to programmes in universities addressed to young students considering whether to apply or which …Continue Reading
Summary of MeCCSA’s response to the REF2014 consultation on draft panel criteria and working methods. Name : Prof. Peter Golding Position : Hon. Sec. Institution/organisation : Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association Email : peter.golding@northumbria.ac.uk Responding as : Academic association or learned society Address : Ellison Place Town : Newcastle upon Tyne County : Tyne and …Continue Reading
MeCCSA’s response to the White Paper arises from a period of discussion and dialogue with members over the consultation period. Our response is divided into the following sections that reflect the key concerns of our members: Education vs. employability; Contestable Student Places; ‘Efficiency’ Savings; Education for sale and for profit; Micro-Management or Accountability?; Inequality; Employer Sponsorship; The Role of HEFCE.
MeCCSA has responded to the consultation on proposals for the Research Excellence Framework (REF), promoted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). The consultation had set out proposals for all key aspects of the framework and invited responses from across the UK and invited responses from the higher education sector as well asorganisations …Continue Reading
In August 2009 MeCCSA has submitted a response to the ESRC ‘International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology’ > Read the response (pdf, 17 kb)
Response to AHRC consultation Future Directions May 2009
Christine Geraghty, MeCCSA Chair 7 April 2008 ‘Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: the Proposed Changes to Copyright Exceptions’ (UK Intellectual Property Office, 2008) In responding to this consultation by the UK Intellectual Property Office, MeCCSA, the Higher Education Subject Association representing academics and researchers in the broad discipline of Communications, Cultural and …Continue Reading
Response to HEFCE consultation on the future of research assessment February 2008
MeCCSA position paper, January 2007 MeCCSA is the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association is the HE subject association which represents academics and departments researching in film, television and related area in the UK. We present this paper as a contribution to the current debate and to stress the crucial importance of the collections which …Continue Reading
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