In reply to Offwidth:
The Sheffield Tribune link you posted seems a well balanced article. Looks like there may will have been an issue with match funding, and it does look like the AMRC needs a different structure to capitalise on its success.
A bit off topic, but I loved the first comment under the article:
> In the UK, education is an inferior clone of what happens at Eton and Oxbridge. There are the other elite private schools, also feeding Oxbridge; then there are lesser public schools and top grammar schools feeding the 'Russel Group' universities like Sheffield; then there are the new 'academies' and other top schools feeding the newer universities and former polytechnics like Hallam university; but then we stop calling it 'education' altogether and nurses, teachers, plumbers, care workers and so on are merely 'trained' - but they are the very sorts of people we discovered the value of during the pandemic.
> But what if it is actually the nurses, teachers, plumbers and care workers who are 'educated' and actually the scholars of Eton who are the ones who are 'trained'? The problem is they are trained to rule, and we let them rule us.