Critical Issues for Universities Ignored by Welsh Politicians

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HAVING, for once, avoided any contact with academia during my fortnight's holiday in Portugal, I seem to have returned to a situation where the UK university sector could be on the brink of turmoil.

For example, one particular story in the Times Higher Education - the academics' trade journal - indicated that university vice- chancellors in England were "thinking the unthinkable" and modelling 20% budget reductions for the next financial year given the likely cuts in public sector expenditure after the 2010 general election.

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Critical Issues for Universities Ignored by Welsh Politicians

Given that the sector in England receives around pounds 8bn every year, this would amount to an eye-watering reduction of around pounds 1.6bn which would decimate the sector at a time when it is needed the most to help the economy re...

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