All long since gone, sadly. But they cast their shadows and influence over higher education policy to this day. Marking 50 years of Robbins, David Willetts’ campaign to abolish Student Number Controls was launched. Both he and Liam Byrne have written important pamphlets setting out their parties’ thinking in Robbins’s name. Haldane may have set out his famous principles in 1918 but they still get trundled out by every minister, vice chancellor and research council CEO. They took up several pages in last year’s Science and Innovation Strategy. Dearing has more recently left us, but his influence hasn’t with his legacy on student funding very much still alive. Find further analysis about why they made the list here.
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Lionel Robbins, Ron Dearing, Richard Haldane
All long since gone, sadly. But they cast their shadows and influence over higher education policy to this day. Marking 50 years of Robbins, David Willetts’ campaign to abolish Student Number Controls was launched. Both he and Liam Byrne have written important pamphlets setting out their parties’ thinking in Robbins’s name. Haldane may have set … Continued
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