UK universities chief pushes back against critics of system

Alistair Jarvis’s speech at a conference in Birmingham followed a summer of criticism by Lord Adonis, above, of ‘failings in the university sector’.Critics of British universities including Andrew Adonis are peddling “misinformation, muddled argument and even a little malicious intent,” according to the head of a group representing UK vice-chancellors.Alistair Jarvis, the newly appointed chief executive of Universities UK, did not name the former education minister