Universities losing public trust and licence

“I don't see the financial crisis as the challenge facing universities, but I see it as the result or a symptom of a far wider challenge,”

“I think we're going to have to be honest that governments aren't going to bail us out.”

“universities tend to, more naturally focus on what society owes them, and, you know, what, what, how society should support universities, how governments and taxpayers should support us financially, because we have this sense that we've been taken for granted or even neglected, either benignly or in other ways.”

“The days of going to political leaders and saying, we're under-resourced, give us more money, but don't tell us what to do with it, just trust us, have gone.”

“Well, at the moment, frankly, academia is just one of these knowledge bubbles,”

“although trusted expertise is being challenged politically and culturally, partly for good reasons, because I think occasionally institutions that generate expertise or, or hold expertise have sometimes overclaimed certainty”