This new Strategic Plan covers a period of the greatest uncertainty and challenge facing UK higher education for the last 30 years or more. In every part of the UK there is a combination of major cuts in university funding and lack of clarity about future structures, funding and regulatory systems. There is however the certainty of increased competition, nationally and internationally, and a critical need to balance the core purposes and values of higher education against an imperative to further tighten the way the business of the university is run. This will involve difficult choices about collaborations and partnerships, shared services and outsourcing. With all this are the concomitant concerns about institutional autonomy and identity.
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