One of the Founding Members of the Council for the Defense of British Universities (CDBU), the Astronomer Royal, Lord Rees, is to debate against David Willetts MP, Minister of State for Universities and Science, on the subject “Can British Universities Keep Ahead in a Global Future?”. The debate will take place on Wednesday, 12th December....Read More
As well as plenty of coverage in the British media, the launch of the Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) has made headlines in the foreign press as well. Here’s a round-up of just some of the stories: Washington Monthly (USA) BBC China The Australian Bianet (Turkey) Actualitte (France)Read More
What is to be done? This was the leading question aired at the inaugural meeting of the Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) at the British Academy on the evening of Tuesday, 13 November. Such was the consensus amongst Founding Members of the need for action that few words were wasted lamenting the...Read More
We’re delighted to see that the new Council for the Defence of British Universities (CDBU) has been receiving plenty of press coverage from outlets around the world, ahead of our official launch at the British Academy on Tuesday 13th. Here are some of the highlights:Read More
The Council for the Defence of British Universities now has social media accounts on Twitter and Facebook: You can find us on Twitter at @cdbuni and talk about us using the hashtag #cdbu You can find us on Facebook here If you support the idea of the Council, please do consider following us and telling...Read More
BY Gordon Campbell (University of leicester) CDBU will be formally launched at an Inaugural Meeting at the British Academy next Tuesday, 13 November. Drawing up the list of those invited to attend this initial meeting has not been easy: the space available to us is small, but the number of academics concerned about the state of...Read More
BY Philip Moriarty (University of Nottingham) Today’s Times Higher Education leads with a cover story on the formation, motivations, and objectives of the CDBU. Two articles by Sir Keith Thomas and Lord Martin Rees – founding members of the CDBU, and past presidents respectively of the British Academy and Royal Society – lay out, in a stirring call...Read More
