Uni challenge
The report – currently under detailed scrutiny by cabinet secretary Michael Russell – makes a range of concrete proposals.
McAlpine may wish they had gone further and in that would find support in many of the views submitted to the von Prondzynski team by academics and organisations representing them, support staff and students.
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Hide AdIt is to be hoped McAlpine’s article will fuel debate, perhaps starting from his propositions that “universities matter in a way banks never will” and that the future of Scottish universities should involve entrusting their governance to “the community that properly understands [their] purpose in society”.
Such a debate is important for all who see higher education as a key element in Scotland’s democracy, particularly as the Scottish Government draws its recommendations from the von Prondzynski recommendation.
Terry Brotherstone
Dundas Street