James Ladyman has called attention to how The Guardian has "launched" In Defence of Public Higher Education, a document co-signed by the British Philosophical Association and signed by prominent UK academics in order to protest the UK Government's plans for higher education. You can read the article here. It is co-signed by a number of philosophers. But reading between the lines, I wonder if there isn't a split between the so-called Russel Group (older, prestigious research universities) and the so-called 1994 Group (another group of UK research universities, also prestigious), and -- to confuse things -- a further split within these among the the natural sciences (over-confident they won't be cut off from funding) and some of the social sciences and humanities. (I suspect a further complication is that it is a bit hard to predict who will be financial gainers/losers over the medium term.) Do UK readers want to comment?
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