As turbulent times loom, the federal university has a renewed sense of purpose and is in “massively better shape”, said Geoffrey Crossick, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. The idea of the cuts, according to Crossick, is about strengthening the provisions in each of the Colleges. He sees it as something that would work best at the postgraduate level but gives the example of undergraduate programmes. “Goldsmiths has an outstanding Design Department, Queen Mary has an outstanding Engineering Department”, he said. “That’s real complementarity.”

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