You can go to today’s universities and see what excellence actually looks like or you can be ignorant and lazy and sneer at ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees at post-92 universities instead. Good to see Victoria Derbyshire choosing the intelligent option and reporting on it.

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Given the huge pressures on universities and debates about their future role, I'm pleased to say we are launching a new @britishacademy.bsky.social programme of policy work on UK higher education to understand the landscape and plot ways forward www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy/highe...

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This is damning. So much could could have been done at the time, with what was known about COVID, and with what what resources we had. It’s hard not to read callous neglect into these findings. And that intentional neglect was layered with lies - like the “protective ring” - which did not exist.

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Time to get a grip, before a genuinely world-leading higher education slips from our grasp.

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This is effectively the beginning of the end of the best public media production culture in the world. Brexit destroyed the entire country.

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