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University recruitment

In 2010 Professor Green spoke out about Government fines for universities who over-recruited:

• Daily Telegraph – February 2010 – Record in university applications puts place at risk for one in three students
• Daily Telegraph – February 2010 - Universities fined up to £800,000 for taking in students during places crisis
• Daily Mail – February 2010 – Universities to snub 250,000 students as British applicants are hardest hit by £500m spending cut

Tuition fees

In 2010/11, Professor Green was one of the only Vice Chancellors to speak out in opposition to the raising of tuition fees and has continued to speak out on this issue:

• The Independent – March 2010 – Opinion piece: We should not cut university places
• The Times – August 2010 – Opinion piece: Fewer places but students shouldn’t give up on their dreams
• BBC News – December 2010 - Tuition fees plan: Vice chancellors for and against
• Times Higher Education - April 2011 – Worcester head: Protestors you have my sympathy
• The Guardian – May 2013 – Student loans: Will it soon be pay-back time?
• Times Higher Education - September 2017 - Face it – there’s no going back on tuition fees
• The Guardian – October 2017 - Academic civil war as elite universities lobby for others to drop their fees

Higher education policy

Professor Green has also spoken more widely about Higher Education policy and students:

• Chronicle of Higher Education - October 2010 - Point-Counterpoint: Britain's Budget Crisis
• Chronicle of Higher Education – August 2011 - As England Burns, Education Is a Victim, Too
• Chronicle of Higher Education – November 2011 - Britain Threatens Its Economic Future by Cutting University Support
• The Guardian – January 2013 - Could a university be the next HMV?
• The Independent – October 2015 - University status has given Britain confidence and recognition
• The Guardian – November 2015 - Jo Johnson's university reforms: reactions from the experts
• Times Higher Education – June 2017 - Quarter of UK universities ‘under threat’ by 2022, v-c warns
• Times Higher Education – June 2017 - In the general election students told us a lot – and we must listen to them

Nursing and Midwifery students

Professor Green has been an avid campaigner of the need for more Nursing and Midwifery students, and in opposition to the scrapping of bursaries for these subjects:

• Nursing Times – April 2011 – Call to keep student nursing places
• The Daily Telegraph – September 2012 – NHS heading for disaster over lack of nurses
• The Times – August 2017 – Axing grants for nurses is an act of self-harm
• Nursing Times - October 2017 – Extra nurse placements must be released immediately
• BBC News – October 2017 - Earn as you learn – will it deliver more trained nurses?

Teacher training

He was one of the first to predict a teacher shortage and has long campaigned for more teacher training places:

• Daily Telegraph – October 2014 - Teaching can't merely be learnt on-the-job

Brexit

In October 2017, Professor Green was the only Vice Chancellor to make public a sinister letter from Government whip, Chris Heaton-Harris MP, asking for the names of Professors teaching on Europe:

It was first published in The Guardian – Universities deplore McCarthyism as MP demands list of Tutors lecturing on Brexit

And subsequently across more than 600 other news channels worldwide. Here is a selection:

• The Guardian - Senior UK academics call for people's vote to save universities
• BBC News - Tory MP under fire over 'sinister' Brexit demand to universities
• The Independent - We will never surrender': Universities vow to defy Tory MP over 'chilling and sinister' Brexit letter
• Huffington Post - Angela Rayner Says Brexiteer Government Should 'Keep Its Nose Out' Of Universities
• Reuters - UK universities fear censorship after MP asks how they teach Brexit
• Daily Telegraph - Tory MP requests details of universities' Brexit teaching amid claims students are being brainwashed by Remainers
• Sky News - University chiefs blast senior Tory over 'sinister' Brexit letter
• The Times of India - UK universities fear censorship after lawmaker asks how they teach Brexit
• Evening Standard - Row as Tory Asks: Who’s Lecturing Students on Brexit
• The Times - I want names of Brexit lecturers, Tory whip tells universities
• BBC News – January 2018 – How universities replied to that Brexit letter