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Higher Education and the business community

Sunday 28th August 2011
by Dr. Kevin Adams, Associate Dean for Employer Engagement, University of Bradford

A royal wedding, spending cuts, striking unions – sound familiar?

This was thirty years ago when I was a student at the University of Leeds. Then the UK economy was dominated by mass labour and the nationalised industries such as coal and steel. We had far fewer Universities than the 116 listed in the recent Times league tables and around 15...

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