Winning the argument about universities

Universities are success stories.  They educate large numbers of young people – participation in higher education has risen consistently in the UK and globally.  They undertake research which has produced striking advances in medicine, sciences, arts, social sciences and humanities.  Universities fuel the knowledge economy. They create value for cities and communities.  And so on. …

What happens next?

Perhaps all photographs are – or were, when there were fewer of them – poignant.  Photographs taken just before the First World War are especially touching: people captured, in grainy monochrome going about their daily lives, enjoying themselves, on the way to somewhere, all of them with not a clue about what was to come. …