June 16, 2010
Universities Week generating celebrity support
As we are half way through Universities Week the campaign is gathering celebrity support from no other than Stephen Fry who tweeted this morning:
“[It’s] Universities Week – help support great institutions of which we can be so proud”.
A recognised supporter of the campaign he has said:
“I cannot believe that anything I am now or do now or have now could have existed were it not for my three years at university. University education is a most marvellous profound and life-changing experience. It is a glory we do not always prize highly enough and it cannot be taken for granted. It is not about elitism but nor is only about training for the job markets. It is about enriching the cultural, economic and social life of our country in an inexpressibly important way.”
Earlier in the week, Professor Brian Cox presenter of BBC science programmes and recent OBE also showed support by tweeting “superb letter today from business leaders in The Times”.
A number of CIHE members support the campaign having written to the Times earlier in the week. CIHE member Genevieve Berger, Chief Research & Development Officer, Unilever plc has said:
“Unilever is a company committed to making the lives of consumers everywhere a little better every day with products and services to meet their musts, needs and wants. This demands a continuous stream of innovations based on new technology and strong R&D. In pursuit of this mission our academic partners in the UK universities play a crucial role in engaging us with leading edge research to create new scientific possibilities and supporting our company with the supply of new talent not just as industrial R&D experts but as potential business leaders of the future.”More on Universities Week can be found here.
