The Reeducation Of Oxford

摘要

MENTION OXFORD,and images of daydreaming dons and youths punting on the Cherwell come to mind.But in the sparsely furnished office of the university's new boss,Vice-Chancellor John Hood,the talk is all cold facts and figures.Hood doesn't even blush when he compares managing Oxford University's 2,000 or so research projects to running a construction company-something he once did."Exactly the same discipline is required to manage that scale of activity," he says.