{"id":5610,"date":"2009-03-19T10:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2009-03-19T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:07:08","slug":"terence-kealey-why-oxford-university-had-to-resist-sir-victor-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/terence-kealey-why-oxford-university-had-to-resist-sir-victor-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Kealey: Why Oxford University had to resist Sir Victor Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent: Terence Kealey: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/education\/higher\/terence-kealey-why-oxford-university-had-to-resist-sir-victor-blank-1647935.html\">Why Oxford University had to resist Sir Victor Blank<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 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? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/03\/terence-kealey-why-oxford-university-had-to-resist-sir-victor-blank\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1223],"tags":[3032,3030,1288936,3031],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance","tag-cambridge","tag-england","tag-governance","tag-oxford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}