Inept managers have left universities at crisis point | Letters

Prof Helen Smith, David Rennie and Prof John Denham on the dire state of university fundingWilliam Davies’ article on the plight of universities struck a chord (How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster, 2 July). But he underplays how culpable the last decade of university managers have been, and how damaging and dated their response is now.Universities and their staff face the same problems, derived from the same causes, but – as Davies points out – universit