The writer is professor of modern and contemporary history at Oxford Brookes University
The UK’s universities are beleaguered and besieged. Redundancies continue to be announced. Cardiff, Dundee, Edinburgh, Kent, Queen’s Belfast, Sheffield; the list goes on and on. Perhaps 10,000 jobs will go in this academic year, and that’s just the beginning.
Governments of both parties have allowed an intense crisis to gain so much speed and power that it now resembles a tsunami, unstoppable without an emergency rescue operation and then a huge programme of remedial work on universities’ financial defences.
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