The Guardian: Cambridge University Press: dons step in as digital age threatens jobs at world’s oldest publisher
• Unions take their case to university’s Syndicate
• Management says press was losing £2m a year
College dons have become embroiled in a bitter row over plans to axe more than 150 jobs at Cambridge University Press – the oldest continually operating book publisher in the world.
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The Guardian: Cambridge dons retain control of university
Funding council insists they provide more information about how they spend their money
The government’s university funding body has backed away from efforts to force Cambridge to end its centuries-old tradition of academics running the institution themselves.
The ancient university has agreed to provide more information to account for the public money it receives from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) — more than £181m in the coming year — but has resisted pressure to have a majority of external members on its governing council.
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The Independent: Terence Kealey: Why Oxford University had to resist Sir Victor Blank
In the year 2000, Gordon Brown set out to destroy the 800-year tradition of academic self-government at Oxford and Cambridge. The man he chose to execute his policy was Sir Victor Blank. Sir Victor is the chairman who severely damaged the share price of Lloyds Bank, and on that evidence he is less than competent – as of course is Gordon Brown. So how did those two men position themselves nearly to destroy the governance of two of the greatest universities on the globe?
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