International cooperation key to global recovery
How international collaboration between leading universities can play a key role in helping to shape a recovery that works for all.
Let’s get back to the principles set out in the UK budget
Professor Anton Muscatelli argues that the recognition of university research in the UK budget now offers a focus, where UK research can help shape a post COVID-19 economy that delivers for all.
Universities hold the key to economic recovery – but there must be no return to austerity
The contribution of universities will be crucial to post-COVID recovery but the quest for the ‘new normal’ must extend to universities too, says Anton Muscatelli, Principal of Glasgow University.
This time it’s different
Article by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal of University of Glasgow, on the required economic measures and approaches to avoid a re-run of the austerity which followed the financial crisis of 2008.
The economic policy response to COVID-19
Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Vice-Chancellor University of Glasgow, outlines how the world economy can best attenuate the effect coronavirus (COVID 19) will have on our economies and social fabric
A letter from the Standing Council on Europe, chaired by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli
An open letter from members of the Standing Council on Europe, a group of independent advisers established by the First Minister of Scotland after the EU referendum in 2016 to consider the impact of the UK’s exit from the EU on Scottish interests.
University finance reforms must be planned carefully
Comment by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor University of Glasgow, on what the Augar Review of higher education funding could mean for Scotland in a post-Brexit landscape.
Brexit – what now?
Comment piece by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice Chancellor University of Glasgow, in which he argues for a People’s Vote on Brexit.
Brexit Summit Speech by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli
Full text of the speech made by Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal of the University of Glasgow, to the Scottish Government Brexit Summit for Further and Higher Education.
Muscatelli – Time for a grown up debate on tax
By Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli Devolution was always said to be a process rather than an event. Over the past eighteen years, Holyrood, perhaps after hesitant beginnings, has more and more come of age. Free personal care, a ban on smoking in public places, free prescriptions, an end to student tuition fees and, most recently,…