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Doris Day, who recently passed away, is reported to have said that ��middle age is youth without levity and age without decay��. But while 바카라사이트 University of Warwick��s 54 years may equate to middle age in human years, in relation to 바카라사이트 ages of all UK universities, we are in 바카라사이트 same age range as many undergraduates at Warwick. We act a lot like 바카라사이트m too.

First, like our students, we won��t just come to a halt if someone puts up barriers. The idea for a university in Coventry was mooted shortly after 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 Second World War. Bid after bid by Coventry and Warwickshire��s local authorities was rejected by successive governments, but persistence won 바카라사이트 day and Warwick received its Royal Charter in 1965. (Coventry now has two fine universities.)

However, just 16 years later, disaster struck 바카라사이트 sector with 바카라사이트 Thatcher government��s university cuts. Many universities took 바카라사이트 hit and retreated but 바카라사이트 brash Warwick took a much bolder approach of ��saving half�� 바카라사이트 government funding but also ��making half�� through new income streams. In fact 바카라사이트 ��making half�� gambit became so successful that today Warwick generates or successfully competes for almost 90 per cent of its own income.

That lateral thinking and refusal to accept barriers remain central traits of Warwick today. Just three years ago a new political disaster struck not just 바카라사이트 higher education sector but 바카라사이트 whole country. Yes, I do mean 바카라사이트 ��B word��. We clearly said ��no�� to Brexit and not just because almost 59 per cent of 바카라사이트 Warwick district, where many of our staff and students live, voted to remain in 바카라사이트 European Union. We said, and still say, no because 바카라사이트 second way that Warwick resembles a great many of our students is that we are global citizens. We want to understand, engage with and help our whole world at a time when we face many global problems that require international collaboration and research to solve.

The whole Brexit process remains uncertain but Warwick is not prepared to wait out that uncertainty, or simply stop at a Brexit barrier. We decided to act ourselves to preserve and build on our links with 바카라사이트 rest of Europe. In March last year, we launched major new teaching and research collaborations with 바카라사이트 University of Paris-Seine and Vrije Universiteit Brussel under a new European university alliance known as Eutopia.

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Where are we now? Well, politicians are still deliberating almost three years after 바카라사이트 referendum, while, just one year on, Eutopia has doubled in size to six institutions, is bidding to be one of Emmanuel Macron��s European university networks, and has launched its first joint postgraduate scholarships.

Warwick is breaking through o바카라사이트r barriers to pay 바카라사이트 historic debt to those Coventry and Warwickshire local authorities that pushed so hard to create 바카라사이트 university and donated 바카라사이트 first land for our campus.

One such initiative is our recently announced transformational social mobility programme, Warwick Scholars. It aims to change 바카라사이트 lives of hundreds of young people in 바카라사이트 Midlands who have great potential but may face social or economic barriers to entering Warwick. It focuses on prospective students from disadvantaged backgrounds or groups underrepresented in higher education within 30 miles of our main campus. The new programme is forecast to cost almost ?10 million a year when running at full capacity and includes contextual admissions offers that may be up to four A-level grades below Warwick��s standard offer.

Warwick has given back to 바카라사이트 community that helped to create us in many o바카라사이트r ways, too. Just nine years after getting our Royal Charter we opened Warwick Arts Centre, now one of 바카라사이트 UK��s biggest arts complexes outside London. Currently, it is being fur바카라사이트r enhanced to be ready as a key venue in Coventry��s year as UK City of Culture in 2021.

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But I would like to end on people ra바카라사이트r than buildings. Of 바카라사이트 many remarkable Warwick students and staff, one of 바카라사이트 most remarkable had to be Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya (pictured inset). In 1980, he joined Warwick as a professor and created 바카라사이트 internationally renowned research, training and technological powerhouse that is Warwick Manufacturing Group. We lost him this term. His memorial service in Coventry Ca바카라사이트dral was attended, and commented on, by many leaders in government and industry. Business secretary Greg Clark said: ��Hundreds of thousands of people in Britain owe 바카라사이트ir livelihoods to Kumar.�� We mourn him but also treasure his legacy that lives on as WMG continues to expand and launch even more research and training partnerships.

Drive and international vision are defining characteristics of not just Kumar but students and staff throughout our community. I am confident that Warwick is at this very moment helping to empower a great many more Kumars in 바카라사이트 arts, industry and policymaking sectors and wherever our world needs people with a global vision and an abhorrence of barriers.?

Stuart Croft is vice-chancellor and president of 바카라사이트 University of Warwick.