It’s 2011, and you’ve just been appointed Vice-Provost of the 76th best university in the world. You have responsibility for the academic direction and ambition of a university that is over 500 years old. You are only the second woman to hold the job. The only snag, you soon realise, is that there’s no money. Within five years your university will have plummeted to 160th in the world, and the phrase “funding crisis”, once unthinkable, will have become so overused as to create only a sense of resignation, rather than panic. Any attempt to address this funding shortfall seemed to end in disaster. Fee rises, … Continue reading In Time of Crisis, Bringing About a Change in Culture