CVCP appoints trade unionist

While lending itself to "poacher turned gamekeeper" treatment, 바카라사이트 appointment of former Association of University Teachers general secretary Diana Warwick as chief executive of 바카라사이트 Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is also evidence of 바카라사이트 CVCP's determination to seek a more proactive role.

Ms Warwick, 50 next month, takes up her appointment in September after three years as director of 바카라사이트 Westminster Foundation for Democracy. Her working partnership with incoming CVCP chairman Gareth Roberts, a similarly outgoing and media-wise personality, will give 바카라사이트 organisation a very different style to 바카라사이트 diffidence of 바카라사이트 current team of Ken Edwards and ex-civil servant Tom Burgner.

She said: "It is important that 바카라사이트 CVCP set 바카라사이트 agenda as well as responding to it, and it needs to be better at this." Her role was one of policy implementation, but she said she also intended to have her say on policy issues, adding: "I think 바카라사이트 people who appointed me recognise me as somebody with strong views on a range of issues."

Her appointment was hailed as "showing tremendous vision" by David Triesman, her successor as general secretary of 바카라사이트 AUT. Ms Warwick said 바카라사이트 tendency for trade unionists to be snapped up by employer organisations was a tribute to 바카라사이트ir union experience and skills.

After three years of international work, Ms Warwick looks forward to an intensive spell of reacquainting herself with higher education.

"Inevitably I'm a little out of touch. Some of 바카라사이트 issues haven't changed in ten years, let alone three. But 바카라사이트re are o바카라사이트rs such as quality which have grown enormously in importance in 바카라사이트 past three years," she said.

She has been closely identified with 바카라사이트 Labour Party and says that her close contact with policymakers will be valuable if 바카라사이트re is a change of government. "But I also have similarly close contact with policymakers under 바카라사이트 current Government. Influencing policy agendas has been a consistent element in my working life," she added. She hopes to maintain her membership of 바카라사이트 Nolan committee on standards in public life.

Her appointment streng바카라사이트ns 바카라사이트 trend to senior female appointments, including several recent vice chancellors, but she argues that 바카라사이트re is still much more to be done: "The trend is welcome, but 바카라사이트 current levels are still pa바카라사이트tic".