How diverse should the higher education sector be across institutions over the next twenty years?
Birmingham Conservatoire supports the diversity of higher education institutions, recognising that small specialist institutions are best suited to the delivery of some subjects like music. a. the benefits or otherwise of diversity Although threshold standards, helping to identify the meaning of a university degree, should be developed, this should not limit diversity within the sector. If student diversity is to increase at recruitment then the range of courses must develop in line with increasingly broad expectations. b. how diverse institutions should be and what forms diversity should take. Institutions should have distinctive features and areas of specialisation. This is particularly so in the case of conservatoires. Distinctive features within conservatoires will include focused specialisation within a broadening diversity of mission. c. what distinctive features an institution should have to be recognised as a higher education institution and/or a university A higher education i
