Ian Mean sits down with Dame Clare Marchant, vice chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire
In the run-up to the official opening of the University of Gloucestershire's City Campus by the Princess Royal, Princess Anne, Ian Mean sits down with Dame Clare Marchant to talk
Dame Clare Marchant, the relatively new vice chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire is a tough cookie.
She needs to be as we see over 40 per cent of our universities struggling with big deficits.
Gloucestershire has a small deficit, but a strong net inflow of cash.
However, the going is very tough.
The university’s new City campus- developed from the iconic former Debenhams building in the centre of Gloucester- started as a £40 million project with the final costs £75 million.
Clare has a professional pedigree that really does fit the role commercially. She previously headed up UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) in Cheltenham and had also been the chief executive of Worcestershire County Council.
She is very open and refreshingly honest about her university challenge since being appointed two years ago.
“For the first time, universities are waking up to the fact the commercial world is tough and their whole survival depends on having the right courses for the right …
