The Council for the Defence of British Universities invites applications to our second call for project funding. Projects can encompass any aspect of higher education in the UK, including policy and institutional change (e.g. mergers), curricula developments, finance, staff and student welfare and wellbeing or the effects of restructuring programmes currently ravaging our sector. Comparisons...Read More

We would like to wish all our members and subscribers a very Happy New Year!   One highlight of last year was the launch of our Code of Ethical University Governance, written by Professor Steven Jones, a member of our Executive Committee. Professor Jones launched the Code at a successful event at the House of...Read More

We are pleased to publish the results of one of our funded research projects.  ‘Satisfied Customers?: Interrogating “the student experience” in the neoliberal university’, by Professor Leo McCann (University of York) explores UK students’ perspectives on the marketized university.  The research found that UK university students are largely enthusiastic about the content and quality of their degrees,...Read More

We are pleased to publish the results of one of our funded research projects. “University Governance: Views from the Inside”, by Professor Steven Jones (PI) and Dr Diane Harris, explores the inner workings of university governance through a series of interviews with current and former members of university governing bodies in England from 41 different...Read More

We are pleased to publish the initial results of one of our funded research projects, “When and why do we read? The Time and Value of Reading in the Twenty-First Century”, by Dr Ben Davies, University of Portsmouth, (PI) and Professor Christina Lupton, University of Copenhagen. You can read the report here.Read More