How many professors in the uk

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The annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.

At the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from to between to But new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3, staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0. Kehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being "progressive dreamlands", the "make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities".

While some, like alumni relations, have been a success, others, like the European Institute of Technology, have been attacked as nonsensical translations which waste time and money. Instead of always looking to the US for inspiration, says Professor Bone, we should be looking more to Europe, and in particular Scandinavia.

British academia has been moving away from the European professorial model for some time. Chelly Halsey, emeritus professor of sociology at Oxford and author of The Decline of Donnish Dominion, believes this is a problem.

There has been a big expansion in the number of professorships in the UK. In there were a little over a hundred professors at Oxford, out of around 2, academic staff. Now Professor Halsey estimates that between a third and a half of all academic staff at Oxford are professors. The Oxford professorship has been abolished. Professor Halsey opposes Warwick's reform as another nail in the coffin of the status of the traditional professorship, and a move closer to an academic body where respect is given to wages and money, rather than prestige and reputation.

But more democratic dons reckon that the professorial sprawl of the last 20 years makes Warwick's move less of a threat than it might look.

A professor in catering is not the same as a professor in neuroscience, but we're all highly qualified and poorly paid. Also true for Warwick's lecturers and readers. But Warwick's new "professors" should not expect too warm a welcome from the old guard. Until everyone else starts doing the same, of course. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later?