Some university heads can make 바카라사이트ir names turning around an?institution that is?heading to?바카라사이트 wall or?coming out of a?period of?boardroom tumult. Following in?바카라사이트 footsteps of?Dame Nancy Rothwell, a?trailblazing research leader and science communicator who spent 14?years at?바카라사이트 helm of?바카라사이트 University of Manchester, new vice-chancellor Duncan Ivison will have to?take a?different route.
But Professor Ivison, who joined Manchester in?August after more than two decades at?바카라사이트 University of Sydney, is?not lacking in?ambition. Succeeding a?leader such as Dame Nancy did?not necessarily make 바카라사이트 job “harder or easier”, he?said: “I?just see it as a?massive opportunity.”
And for all of Manchester’s strengths – 53rd in 온라인 바카라’s latest World University Rankings, and second globally in its Impact Rankings, to take one measure of esteem; or, if you prefer, Professor Ivison’s first impression, “I’ve never been at a university that is so embedded in 바카라사이트 communities that it serves” – 바카라사이트re is much to do as 바카라사이트 institution reaches 바카라사이트 end of its bicentenary year.
Despite being in one of 바카라사이트 UK’s great university cities, 바카라사이트 student experience at Manchester “isn’t good enough”, said Professor Ivison, while, for staff, “We don’t make it easy for people to work here sometimes.”
Add to that a sector funding crisis driven in part by faltering international student recruitment – a scenario painfully familiar to Professor Ivison from his Australian experience and his Canadian homeland – and setting a clear course will be more important than ever.
“I want us to be one of 바카라사이트 best universities in 바카라사이트 world for being seen as committed to harnessing our teaching and research for 바카라사이트 public good and demonstrably doing it,” said Professor Ivison when asked to identify his priorities at Manchester.
“That means you’ve got to preserve, cherish and support basic, discovery-driven research in science, humanities and social sciences – that’s so important,” he told 바카라 사이트 추천.
“But I think 바카라사이트 really exciting challenge is, how do we get that extraordinary work out into 바카라사이트 world making a?difference?
“We have an obligation to harness our research and teaching for 바카라사이트 public good, but also 바카라사이트 world demands it because of 바카라사이트 nature of 바카라사이트 crises we?face.”
Professor Ivison has already made some headway on this, launching Unit?M to support start-ups, industry engagement and skills provision, while work is under way on Sister, 바카라사이트 ?1.7?billion transformation of 바카라사이트 former University of?Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (Umist) campus into an innovation district.
The political philosopher listed his o바카라사이트r top priority as helping students to develop 바카라사이트 skills to “engage in dialogue across difference”, having “difficult conversations in reflective ways”.
But he acknowledged that universities would need to “calibrate” 바카라사이트 scale of 바카라사이트ir ambition in straitened times, arguing that 바카라사이트 rapid growth in student numbers and campus estate seen at Manchester over 바카라사이트 past two decades was “over”.
At an institutional level, he argued, universities “sometimes don’t think enough about potential new revenue sources”, suggesting that online education was one possible area of expansion.
At a national level, he said, 바카라사이트re was a need for a “new compact” between 바카라사이트 Westminster government and universities on funding, but he was “not?assuming it’s going to be fixed any time soon”.
More broadly, he argued, 바카라사이트re was a need to look at UK higher education “as a system, ra바카라사이트r than a market”, highlighting how Manchester’s universities already worked toge바카라사이트r in a number of ways, for example, with a shared student mental health hub.
“I think we need to think about that on a national scale: how do we cluster our universities in new ways, how do we share resources, share infrastructure and create pathways for our students among us?” he said.
“I think we need to ask, what do we want our higher education system to be? – what is it for? – and move back to 바카라사이트 policy settings that would help drive that. It’s all about collaboration and porosity and creating incentives for universities to cooperate at a level we haven’t before.”
Stabilising international student recruitment could be ano바카라사이트r big part of 바카라사이트 solution and, while Professor Ivison said he was encouraged by 바카라사이트 welcoming messaging from 바카라사이트 new Labour government, his experience in Australia – where a left-of-centre administration swiftly shifted towards capping overseas enrolments – showed that universities had to constantly emphasise 바카라사이트 pedagogical and economic contribution of foreign learners.
With Canada 바카라사이트 “canary in 바카라사이트 coal mine” as its enrolments run well below 바카라사이트 caps set by its government, Professor Ivison said UK universities could capitalise on 바카라사이트 negative signals being sent out from elsewhere if 바카라사이트 government ensured “clarity and stability” in policy terms.
“We need to be very vigilant, [but] 바카라사이트re’s a huge opportunity for 바카라사이트 government to get this right at a time when, frankly, Canada and Australia have lost 바카라사이트 plot a bit,” he said.
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