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On the 14th of March 2012 I was contacted by a search consultant called Mike Dixon about the role of PVC Education at Durham University.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://wonkhe.com/blogs/major-reviews-in-history/.

  2. 2.

    http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo2/16/40/contents.

  3. 3.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/50-51/59/enacted.

  4. 4.

    Repeating that step back in time of sixty or seventy years also encompasses the founding ideas of the research area I entered, built on the foundational ideas of recurrence discussed by Henri Poincaré in 1890, the ergodic theorems of George Birkhoff and John von Neumann in the early 1930s, and the insights into flows on surfaces due to Gustav Hedlund and Eberhard Hopf in the late 1930s.

  5. 5.

    The name of this institution is not a simple matter. As far as I can tell, it was London University from 1825 to 1836, University College, London from 1836 to 1907, University of London, University College from 1907 to 1976, University College London from 1976 to 2005, and since 2005 it has retained University College London as its legal name but has branded itself as UCL. Many other Universities have equally convoluted histories concerning their name, but this one is particularly striking as it is one of the largest institutions in the UK.

  6. 6.

    These and some other difficult to find speeches and documents have been helpfully collated on the website of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).

  7. 7.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/13/contents.

  8. 8.

    The Open University, founded by the Labour government of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and given its royal charter in 1969, Cranfield Institute of Technology, and the Royal College of Arts were, for different reasons, directly overseen by the Department for Education.

  9. 9.

    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/10-11/12/enacted.

  10. 10.

    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/7-8/31/contents/enacted.

  11. 11.

    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/30.

  12. 12.

    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/1/contents/enacted.

  13. 13.

    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/56/contents.

  14. 14.

    www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/8/contents/enacted.

  15. 15.

    https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-browne-report-higher-education-funding-and-student-finance.

  16. 16.

    www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/ministers-reflect/person/vince-cable/.

  17. 17.

    https://www.ons.gov.uk/.

  18. 18.

    https://www.cipd.co.uk/.

  19. 19.

    From the website of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI).

  20. 20.

    This argument has been well made from an economist’s point of view by Nigel Thrift, former Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University [296].

  21. 21.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2017/29/enacted.

  22. 22.

    John Major as Prime Minister created The Committee on Standards in Public Life as an advisory non-departmental public to advise him on ethical standards. It led to the creation of a code of conduct dubbed the ‘Seven Principles of Public Life’ or ‘Nolan principles’ after the first chairman of the committee, Lord Nolan. They comprise selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty, and leadership.

  23. 23.

    https://publicappointmentscommissioner.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Commissioner-for-Public-Appointments-Investigation-OFS-Final.pdf.

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    https://www.ons.gov.uk/.

  25. 25.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/26/contents/enacted.

  26. 26.

    www.hepi.ac.uk/2022/01/26/minimum-thresholds-are-we-really-protecting-students/.

  27. 27.

    www.hepi.ac.uk/2022/03/07/a-test-of-spirit-for-english-higher-education/.

  28. 28.

    https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2862.

  29. 29.

    https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/6/contents/enacted.

  30. 30.

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/equality-act-2010-guidance.

  31. 31.

    https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3153.

  32. 32.

    Robert Zimmer (1947–2023) was an American mathematician specializing in ergodic theory, differential geometry, and rigidity phenomena in Lie group actions. He served as the President of the University of Chicago from 2006 to 2021.

  33. 33.

    Europe’s fifteenth Century ‘Age of Discovery’ and the opening of trade routes between West and East through the voyages of Vasco de Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, and Christopher Columbus.

  34. 34.

    Elmina Castle was built on the South coast of what is now Ghana by the Portuguese in 1482 as a base for the trade in slaves, gold and ivory.

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Ward, T. (2023). From Sillery to the Office for Students. In: People, Places, and Mathematics. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39074-6_13

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