Editor's Blog2 mins ago
I Have Just Received This Email
...which appals me.
My donations to my alma mater cease forthwith.
Message from the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
Dear Mr Jackdaw,
I will be communicating with all of you soon on the new University Strategy that we hope to finalise later this year and I will take that opportunity to let you know about the many splendid achievements of our students this year in drama, music, sport and volunteering. I also have much good news to share about the achievements of our academics and all those who do so much to keep Durham University in the very top tranche of world universities.
Events, however, have overtaken this report and I need to let you know that the University Executive Committee (UEC) held a special meeting this morning to take stock of where we are following the EU Referendum result (‘Brexit’). As you can imagine, Brexit is causing great uncertainty across the UK, but especially in our case for staff members and students (current, prospective and doubtless past) from fellow EU countries.
At this early stage it is worth noting the following. For at least the next two years EU laws will continue to apply in the UK. Full details of the UK’s post-Brexit arrangements with the EU and the rest of the world will emerge through this period and beyond. While these are clearly matters for the government to decide, please be assured that Durham University will play a full part in pressing for future arrangements that best support its continuing ambitions to be a leading world and European University. We flourish because we are an inclusive and outward looking community. I and all UEC members are immensely proud of the contributions of all our staff members and students and I will be saying this very clearly at the 15 Congregation ceremonies we will be holding in the Cathedral this week.
Brexit was not the referendum outcome that British Universities sought. We now have to work hard to shape what it will come to mean. The University has today announced that it will guarantee that continuing EU students at Durham, and those entering Durham in 2016, 2017 and 2018, will complete their courses on the fee regimes set at their point of entry. I will share further information on our plans as they take shape, along with relevant external information. As ever, too, the Executive and I would welcome your thoughts on how best we can protect the interests and reputation of Durham University and its members going forward.
Kind regards,
Stuart
Stuart Corbridge
Vice-Chancellor and Warden
My donations to my alma mater cease forthwith.
Message from the Vice-Chancellor of Durham University
Dear Mr Jackdaw,
I will be communicating with all of you soon on the new University Strategy that we hope to finalise later this year and I will take that opportunity to let you know about the many splendid achievements of our students this year in drama, music, sport and volunteering. I also have much good news to share about the achievements of our academics and all those who do so much to keep Durham University in the very top tranche of world universities.
Events, however, have overtaken this report and I need to let you know that the University Executive Committee (UEC) held a special meeting this morning to take stock of where we are following the EU Referendum result (‘Brexit’). As you can imagine, Brexit is causing great uncertainty across the UK, but especially in our case for staff members and students (current, prospective and doubtless past) from fellow EU countries.
At this early stage it is worth noting the following. For at least the next two years EU laws will continue to apply in the UK. Full details of the UK’s post-Brexit arrangements with the EU and the rest of the world will emerge through this period and beyond. While these are clearly matters for the government to decide, please be assured that Durham University will play a full part in pressing for future arrangements that best support its continuing ambitions to be a leading world and European University. We flourish because we are an inclusive and outward looking community. I and all UEC members are immensely proud of the contributions of all our staff members and students and I will be saying this very clearly at the 15 Congregation ceremonies we will be holding in the Cathedral this week.
Brexit was not the referendum outcome that British Universities sought. We now have to work hard to shape what it will come to mean. The University has today announced that it will guarantee that continuing EU students at Durham, and those entering Durham in 2016, 2017 and 2018, will complete their courses on the fee regimes set at their point of entry. I will share further information on our plans as they take shape, along with relevant external information. As ever, too, the Executive and I would welcome your thoughts on how best we can protect the interests and reputation of Durham University and its members going forward.
Kind regards,
Stuart
Stuart Corbridge
Vice-Chancellor and Warden
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by Jackdaw33. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.
I am not surprised
Folk haven't thought this through, the economic dimensions....you have the NHS, agriculture and fisheries, the regions, various community groups like colleges and schools and so many more bitching how the so-called money sent to Europe will be spent. The amount of money coming in from the EU for research in our Unis is not inconsiderable - I recall over 600 mln Euro a year.....and our Unis have a superb reputation (this money is both the EU and EU companies). This is one hell of a sum to lose from our Uni budgets - and reputation.... My own Uni is also thinking along the lines of your Vice Chancellor.
I don't think we have heard of the last of this - for whatever reason, it shows some of the lack of factual presentation in the pre-vote.
Folk haven't thought this through, the economic dimensions....you have the NHS, agriculture and fisheries, the regions, various community groups like colleges and schools and so many more bitching how the so-called money sent to Europe will be spent. The amount of money coming in from the EU for research in our Unis is not inconsiderable - I recall over 600 mln Euro a year.....and our Unis have a superb reputation (this money is both the EU and EU companies). This is one hell of a sum to lose from our Uni budgets - and reputation.... My own Uni is also thinking along the lines of your Vice Chancellor.
I don't think we have heard of the last of this - for whatever reason, it shows some of the lack of factual presentation in the pre-vote.
I've been aware that educational establishments had apparently been convincing staff etc. that Brexit meant the world will end. There were those ludicrous claims brought up during the tv debates about how all science grant money would lost on Brexit. I think their statement of a viewpoint, which can only be the personal opinion of the writer, is clearly wrong to be expressed as the academia viewpoint; but I'd take it with a pinch of salt. It's hardly the worse example of remain attempts to persuade. Even though it's after the event.
// When Fleming discovered penicillin, which revolutionised world medicine, how much money from Europe did he get for his research?//
is a complete irrelevance ( non sequitur - even as a metaphor it is pretty usefless )
as you well know Fleming did absolutely nothing with his discovery and thought lysozyme was a better bet
and it was the second paper paid for by the war effort in a search for better antisepsis where it potential was realised - Chain and Florey et al
http://
is a complete irrelevance ( non sequitur - even as a metaphor it is pretty usefless )
as you well know Fleming did absolutely nothing with his discovery and thought lysozyme was a better bet
and it was the second paper paid for by the war effort in a search for better antisepsis where it potential was realised - Chain and Florey et al
http://
