Supported the UK's excellent international reputation for high academic standards?
The first academic casualty of the Boston College-Jean McConville furore has been a parallel project which was to involve a London-based historian and an ex-RUC officer as well as retired members of the Garda Siochana in the Irish Republic, all with long records in fighting terrorism.
Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA life sentence prisoner and chief researcher on the Belfast project, defended the archive and blamed Boston College for failing to make clear to him and the interviewees that there was a legal treaty that allowed the British state to seize academic material from the United States.
This year it rolled out projections on to the outside of Broadcasting House and three different sets of analysis — from Sophie Raworth outdoors, Emily Maitlis at the big screen and of course Jeremy Vine, this time performing among some slightly spooky breathing avatars of politicians and a literal House of Cards.
A report by British Educational Research Association (Bera) and Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce shows that countries with the best performing and fastest improving education systems are putting a strong emphasis on university training for teachers.
"Parental support plays a key role in shaping the housing options of young people in the UK, irrespective of social class," says Peter Mackie, an academic at the University of Cardiff who is carrying out a major piece of research on housing for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
By the time he quit the Commons in 2001, he was Father of the House, yet another addition to the honours, political, academic and artistic which he accumulated.
Of the UK's 18,510 university professors, just 85 are black, and only 12.8% of academic staff are from a known ethnic minority background.
Rather, the CPS said the decision on immunity was academic as it had solid fact-related grounds for the basis on which it determined it could not prosecute Sheikh Nasser.
My academic experience at the University of Sheffield was excellent, which is one of the reasons I chose to stay on and complete my MA there.
The academic research, carried out by Leeds University and funded by the Wellcome Trust, also reveals the pressures that lead people to enter the sex industry, with one respondent saying she could not keep up her mortgage repayments while earning £50 a day as an NHS care assistant.
