How Big Money Turned British Universities Into Global Brands

By Mark Wilding. The road to Nottingham University is lined with palm trees. Behind the trees, across a carefully manicured lawn and an ornamental lake, sits the university's gleaming white campus headquarters. On the other side of the road is a series of newly constructed luxury apartments, built to house the university's students, set against the backdrop of a brilliant blue sky. If this all sounds a long way from the East Midlands, that's because it is. More...