Stuart Corbridge, the vice-chancellor of Durham University, has stated plans for repositioning it, which will create 300 new academic jobs and admit thousands of more international students over the next ten years.
He was quoted by Times Higher Education as telling it that Durham set in motion a new 10-year strategy in order to attract new academic staff and students by weaning them away from the golden triangle of Cambridge, Oxford and London for foreign scholars.
The university plans to Invest £700 Million over the next decade to expand its merit in global, national and local research and to make it global in character by adding more overseas staff and students, to open an International Study Centre and boost links with peer institutions all over the world, Corbridge added
He said they were going to reposition Durham, which is somewhat distinctive. Though they do not have critical research mass in certain subjects, they do have it in geography and physics, which are massive and prospering departments and that they could significantly grow in English law, the business school, history and politics.
He sounded confident in hiring faculty from across the EU and beyond. Corbridge said that they had set a target for having for one full-time academic staff member for a couple of PhD students, who would be guided by them in a decade’s time, taking them towards the Russell Group’s top third.
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