We should be focusing less on how distinctive a university is, what its 'USPs' [unique selling points] are, and more on what the purpose of a university is.
It will give us the opportunity to offer a wide choice of high quality, career-focused programmes from a new and distinctive regional university with strong international links".
"I don't defend his more offensive tweets or columns," the Good Morning Britain presenter wrote, "but I do think he would have brought a valuable and distinctive perspective to university education".
At the same time, Princeton aims to be distinctive among research universities in its commitment to undergraduate teaching.
It doesn't matter to them that the Harvard admissions process is distinctive to the Ivy League university.
With a godly white beard, a pair of oval spectacles and the sort of suit that gave Open University its distinctive visual styling, he makes one feel secure in his judgments.
He had talked of UWE's potential to be a "distinctive new kind of university for the twenty-first century, achieving excellence in learning and teaching, knowledge transfer and the extension of educational opportunities to all who can benefit".
He is clear that he doesn't want to lose "those very distinctive features" of the university, such as its commitment to interdisciplinarity. "Everybody here lives, breathes, eats, sleeps, drinks interdisciplinarity.
We are proud that the abundant variety and outstanding quality in many fields, including interdisciplinary fields, and emphasis on individual academic freedom and responsibility give the college and university their distinctive character.
It ushers in a new era of access for readers who value the press' distinctive position as a university press that honors real world complexity by publishing interdisciplinary scholarship that crosses traditional boundaries.
