Vice-Chancellor's speeches and articles

Speeches and articles by the Vice-Chancellor:

Address to University Court 2008 12 December 2008
Should we charge students higher fees? (speech) 10 March 2008
Should we charge students higher fees? (article) 04 March 2008
Who Creates Great Graduates – School or University? 04 March 2008
This house would privatise Britain's universities 17 January 2008
Address to University Court 2007 7 December 2007
Defining the Global University 15 November 2007
Article for the Guardian Unlimited 30 October 2007
A look at the future (and some home truths about money) 12 April 2007 (UoB access only)
Address to University Court 2006 8 December 2006
Bristol Science City: What Would Brunel Have Thought? 4 December 2006
Higher education and civic engagement 7 July 2006
The Management of Research 21 June 2006
Entrepreneurship Education and Internationalisation 17 June 2006

Address to University Court 2005
16 December 2005
Calm or Stormy Seas? Issues facing Higher Education 16 June 2005
Article for the Evening Post about Science City 5 April 2005
Article for the Times Higher Education Supplement re. widening participation 19 November 2004
Article for the Western Daily Press in response to Schwartz Report on university admissions 17 September 2004
Article for the Financial Times about university fundraising 13 May 2004
Article for the Guardian Unlimited about university admissions and the Schwartz review 6 April 2004
Article for The Guardian on Oxbridge applicants, 'Down but not out' 20 January 2004
Article for The Sunday Times on admission fees 14 September 2003
A Vice-Chancellor's perspective on the challenges facing universities June 2003
Article for the Financial Times re. effects of university funding formula 7 May 2003
Letter to The Times re. Widening Participation Deregulation of fees 11 November 2002
The Deregulation of Fees October 2002 (UoB access only)
The Role of Universities in Modern Society 25 September 2002
Spirit of Enterprise July 2002
A Positive Work Environment June 2002 (UoB access only)