Universities in Crisis

Seriously...

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Sam Gyimah, former minister for universities in Theresa May's government, asks if Britain's universities can survive the crisis they now face.

Many are calling the immense challenge that Britain's universities now face an existential crisis. With access to leaders of universities from the most traditional to the most modern, Sam Gyimah explores whether the business and education models for Brtain's higher education sector are fit for purpose. The Covid pandemic is significant but when that crisis comes together with the major issues that Britain's universities already face over their funding, it's clear that the coming academic year will be like no other in living memory.

Universities in Crisis examines the changes now challenging students, teachers, researchers and all those connected to higher education.

Producer: Jonathan Brunert

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:39.0	A new podcast drama series on BBC Sounds,
0:44.0	No Place But The Water.
0:46.0	The Story of a Hotel at the End of the World,
0:50.0	Where there's no place else to run to.
0:52.0	Don't look in the mirror.
0:54.4	Remember that.
0:57.4	If you look in the mirror,
0:59.3	then the whole room is there behind you,
1:02.2	waiting. It moves through the doorway, around the corner into another
1:08.8	place. And if you can tear your eyes away from your face, you might see a movement or a shadow or something that you know wasn't there before.
1:21.0	The mirror waits, and it always asks the same question.
1:27.0	Who else is here?
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