"Exceptional universities that concentrate on teaching and widening participation have been told today that they are being left to scrap it out in an untried market place," said Sally Hunt, general secretary of the UCU.
"Exceptional universities that concentrate on teaching and widening participation have been told today that they are being left to scrap it out in an untried market place," she said.
But if reading a lot of novels gave you exceptional empathy university English departments should be filled with the most compassionate and generous-minded of souls, and, so far, they are not.
Ministers have said the maximum fee should only apply in "exceptional circumstances" and universities wishing to charge more than £6,000 would have to do more to widen the participation of disadvantaged students.
It raises the ceiling on annual tuition fees for English students to £9,000 - although the government says that would only apply in "exceptional circumstances" where universities meet "much tougher conditions on widening participation and fair access".
To further illustrate the far-reaching benefits of a strong higher education sector, let us look to Massachusetts, home of an exceptional number of universities (California, with a state population six times larger, confers only 2.5 times as many bachelors' and higher degrees).
As a member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, you are part of an exceptional department and university; one that uncovers new knowledge, conducts groundbreaking research, and shifts the global conversation.
Whatever its age, Triangle is exceptional: No other university boasts a musical-comedy troupe that has performed so long or toured so extensively, having fun all along the way.
Thanks to exceptional leadership, the university – rather improbably, one could say – has managed to position itself at the forefront of academic excellence and in a frontline position on many academic trends, particularly in forging international partnerships that will prove crucial in these competitive times.
The unicity thesis was successful among Latin authors not only because Averroes as the commentator had become an exceptional authority of university education, but also because it was attractive philosophically: it explained the possibility of the knowledge of universals and it ensured that the intellective soul, as demanded by Aristotle (De anima III.4, 429a22 25), was not mixed with the body.
She received the Harvard Hero award in 2017 for exceptional contributions to the university.
