May 2, 2010
A Battle in Britain: Who Pays for College, and How Much?
National elections, an economic crisis, and a government review raise hard questions for the country
Peter Searle for The Chronicle
Sir Roy Anderson, former rector of Imperial College London, thinks British universities should raise tuition to compete: "If I wander around the Harvard or Princeton campuses, I can see new science buildings, new interdisciplinary buildings."
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Peter Searle for The Chronicle
Sir Roy Anderson, former rector of Imperial College London, thinks British universities should raise tuition to compete: "If I wander around the Harvard or Princeton campuses, I can see new science buildings, new interdisciplinary buildings."
London
Sir Roy M. Anderson doesn't fit the profile of a radical. Silver-maned and imposing, he was knighted for his work as one of Britain's most prominent epidemiologists. But the former rector of one of England's leading universities, Imperial College London, has been advocating for a revolution in British higher education.
He believes that the country's overwhelmingly public universities should be allowed to set
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