In the community:The University welcomes a new Vice-Chancellor.
The University welcomes Dr Michael Spence as it's new Vice-Chancellor. In an address to the University's staff, Dr Spence has outlined some ideas for the way ahead.
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"We need to think hard about funding for teaching but at the same time we must do more to ensure the University really lives up to our policy of being genuinely socially inclusive." he says. "We can be elite but not elitist."
Dr Spence has returned to the University of Sydney after spending the last twenty years at the University of Oxford where he was Head of the Division of Social Sciences, one of only four divisions reporting to the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford. Under his leadership, Oxford's social sciences division was named the best in the world in the latest Times Higher Education rankings.