Universities are in crisis
Experts believe it is already “too late” to avert the oncoming funding disaster: “all everyone can do now is brace”.
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Hannah Rose Woods
Hannah Rose Woods is a cultural historian and the author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain.
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