I can understand general public ignorance about the role of universities, but what has been truly shocking in recent years is the extent to which the leaders of many universities no longer seem to understand their role and casually talk about research and teaching as two very different things.

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Sorry but it's not a lottery: if it were the link between how hard things are for kids and where they live would be random. But it's not. True, there are some poorer places where things aren't too bad. But overall there's a significant correlation between living in a poorer area and poor provision.

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

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My personal view is that anyone found using "holibobs" should be immediately stripped of their UK nationality and made stateless.

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