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VCs, their pay, their power, and the Cambridge Chancellorship race · 65 posts

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Blog · 18 Aug 2026

Playing the Long Game in UK Academia

Professor David Latchman has just been appointed Vice Chancellor of the University of London. He has prospered mightily, despite a checkered past. During the 2000s, David Latchman ran a laboratory at University College London (UCL), where investigators subsequently identified manipulated, duplicated or…

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Blog · 14 Aug 2026

A Crisis and an Opportunity

There are good articles in The Telegraph here and the Times here today. The 21 Group has some sympathy for the Vice Chancellor over the Jason Arday fiasco because the appointment happened before she arrived (though…

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Blog · 13 Aug 2026

Gotcha!

The snippet above is taken from the Tribunal Judgment by Employment Judge Graham: “Ghost writing was a consistent and concerning theme throughout this matter“ An email comes purportedly from the Vice Chancellor Deborah Prentice at 13…

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Blog · 8 Aug 2026

The Biggest Cover-Up Yet

The ‘Cover-up University’ goes for broke. We have seen one of the biggest scandals in the history of Cambridge University. The appointment of Jason Arday was misjudged. By itself, this was poor, but not a scandal.…

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Blog · 3 Aug 2026

The Office for Students Must Investigate

The controversy surrounding Jason Arday now extends across multiple institutions and is causing significant damage to confidence in UK higher education. At a time when universities face intense financial pressures and increasing political scrutiny, public trust…

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Blog · 27 Jul 2026

Sadness and Horror

Sometimes a single post captures, with uncomfortable precision, the mix of emotions many of us are struggling to articulate. It reflects not only the depth of feeling across our community, but also our grief that something…

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