TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION: Universities fear loss of policy focus as ministerial roles split

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Andy Westwood, vice-dean for social responsibility and professor of government practice at the University of Manchester, agreed that “Chris Skidmore was essentially the last person who cared about universities as a whole”.

“By splitting it up, no agency, no civil servant, no minister has a responsibility to think about universities as a single coherent sector. That is worrying,” he said.