Pfizer’s exit from Kent – HE plays a critical role in the region
Today’s news that Pfizer is closing its European HQ for research and development which was based in Kent will be catastrophic news for the local community. The centre is in a particularly economically...
View ArticleUKBA’s student immigration proposals have no intellectual coherence
The immigration minister Damian Green gave a speech yesterday to the think tank Reform explaining the proposals set out by the UK Border Agency in its consultation on student visas. The legal firm...
View ArticleAll a matter of context
I interviewed Professor Steven Schwartz for the QAA podcast series this week (you can listen here ). We roamed around a number of issues and topics including his very influential report into higher...
View ArticleA safe bet
By Mark Leach Both Oxford and Cambridge have let it be known this week that they intend to charge the maximum £9000 fee. Absolutely no one is surprised by this news. However the details about the new...
View ArticleOn the New College of the Humanities
By Mark Leach Editor in Chief Follow @marktweets It was reported in the Sunday papers that A.C. Grayling is setting up a new university in the mould of the American liberal arts colleges – and charging...
View ArticleWhat are universities for?
Today the Guardian asks the question, what are universities for? In the course of the article we see the usual dichotomy emerge between the traditional view of ‘learning for learning’s sake’ in which...
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