Higher Education and Research Bill

My Lords, coming up the escalators at Euston station, you see a number of illuminated signs telli...

My Lords, a number of years ago—probably three decades ago—I found myself in Ohio at 8 am on a co...

My Lords, I declare my interests as a visitor to five Oxford colleges and the governor of Winches...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a visiting professor of King’s College London, a chair of the ...

My Lords, this is my first opportunity to speak in your Lordships’ House since becoming chancello...

My Lords, I welcome this debate and declare my interest as a trustee of the School of Oriental an...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the fellow of one Oxford college, the honorary fellow of anoth...

My Lords, like, I suspect, other speakers in this Second Reading debate, I faced a dilemma about ...

My Lords, given that we are probably educating, in a wide range of higher education institutions,...

My Lords, I support the intent of the Bill. I declare my interest as a mother of three children, ...

My Lords, I declare interests as a former head of the London School of Economics, a professor at ...

My Lords, first I should apologise for being a few seconds late when the Minister started, though...

My Lords, I welcome this opportunity to talk about one of the most important sectors in a liberal...

I declare some interests: I was chancellor of Newcastle University for several years; I have been...

My Lords, I too declare some interests. I am the principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, I was fo...

My Lords, I declare my interest as master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. As so many contributors...

I remind your Lordships of my education interests in the register.

I welcome the general th...

My Lords, this is indeed a juggernaut of a Bill, seeking as it does to restructure the relationsh...

My Lords, according to UUK, the UK higher education sector is a success story with a global reput...

My Lords, I have spent my career behind the scenes, organising campaigns, promoting policies, mob...

My Lords, it gives me enormous pleasure to follow my noble friend Lady Sugg, who has just deliver...

My Lords, I declare my interest as the pro-chancellor of Lancaster University. From this side of ...

My Lords, from these Benches I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Sugg, on her maiden speech. ...

My Lords, I, too, draw attention to academic interests in the register. Most importantly, I have ...

My Lords, the first reading of the Bill makes me ask the question: what is broken that we are try...

My Lords, this is a large and ambitious Bill that many will consider long overdue. At once I shou...

My Lords, Ministers are sometimes asked to explain the need for a Bill for which there is limited...

My Lords, I declare an interest as professor of government at the University of Hull and as chair...

My Lords, I thank the noble Viscount the Minister for the thoughtful way in which he has introduc...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of council of two universities, Nottingham Trent and ...

My Lords, I will raise a few rather narrow concerns about the Bill, which introduces a profound c...

My Lords, I acknowledge the noble Viscount, Lord Younger of Leckie, who is leading on the Bill. B...

My Lords, I declare my professorship of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of...

I must start by saying what a pleasure it was to listen to the maiden speech of my noble friend L...

My Lords, I should remind the House that I am chancellor of and senior adviser to BPP University ...

My Lords, in the limited time available, I will confine my remarks to Part 3 of the Bill concerni...

My Lords, it is always an honour to speak and to add my voice to that of other noble Lords in thi...

My Lords, the UK’s university and research sector is hugely successful, nationally and internatio...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Sugg, on her maiden speech. I strongly believe ...

My Lords, I declare an interest as I was a governor of the LSE for 30 years and am now an emeritu...

My Lords, I spent 20 years working in high-tech industry in the USA at the interface of research ...

My Lords, I declare an interest, given my membership of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Res...

My Lords, I declare an interest: I have the privilege of chairing the council of the Royal Colleg...

My Lords, I declare my interests in Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University and the M...

My Lords, the Higher Education and Research Bill contains some very important reforms. There are ...

My Lords, I am pleased that the noble Lord, Lord Hennessy, has just crept into his place, because...

My Lords, I declare an interest as the warden of Wadham College, Oxford, and express my appreciat...

My Lords, I begin by declaring that I have spent my working life as an academic in British univer...

My Lords, the Bill we are giving a Second Reading to today is truly a case of “Hamlet” without th...

My Lords, I declare an interest as a former chairman for nine years of King’s College London. Thi...

My Lords, I first declare my interest as the recently appointed chair of the board of governors o...

My Lords, I spent four years prior to entering your Lordships’ House looking at universities from...

My Lords, I must thank the Minister, the honourable Jo Johnson, for his courtesy and patience in ...

My Lords, when the noble Lord describes how he has schoolchildren visit his fantastic facilities ...

My Lords, I am proud to be pro-chancellor of the University of Bath, where we undertake ground-br...

My Lords, I should first declare that I am one of the founders of the New Model in Technology & E...

My Lords, so do I. I declare interests in that I publish books on American universities, am a mem...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chancellor of Cranfield University, a postgraduate university ...

My Lords, I decided that if I declared all my interests, it would take the full five minutes. Let...

My Lords, I first went to work as a university lecturer long ago at the University of St Andrews;...

My Lords, it is a great pleasure to follow the noble and learned Lord, Lord Mackay—another mathem...

My Lords, my remarks will focus on some concerns about UKRI. I declare an interest as a member of...

My Lords, I declare an interest as chairman of the Foundation for Science and Technology and as a...

My Lords, at academic conferences this is known as the graveyard slot and I thank you all for sti...

My Lords, I pay tribute to all those who have spoken in this informed and erudite debate. We have...

My Lords, first, I pay tribute to all noble Lords who made this such an informed and interesting ...

My Lords, we have heard many passionate and expert contributions today from noble Lords with cons...