THE: article on policy advisers in Alliance universities
…behaving more like MPs than ever, employing policy experts to advise them on their every move. In a departure from the traditional model of senior management in higher education, university heads are increasingly turning to policy advisers to assist in the day-to-day running of their institutions. So many vice-chancellors have appointed such advisers that the University Alliance, a group of pre- and post-1992 universities, is setting up a policy…