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Bain Capital
Bain Capital promotes top dealmaker to co-managing partner
...The company said Lavine, a large donor to the Democratic party and the former chair of Columbia University’s board of trustees, “believes the time is right to take on a new role” and step back from day-to-day...
March 27, 2024
Climate change
US pushed behind scenes for approval of corporate carbon offset plan
...In a governance reshuffle intended to signal independence and to reflect its growth, SBTi incorporated as a limited company last year and added independent trustees to its board....
April 21, 2024
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Letter
Letter: US university trustees shouldn’t act as a politburo
...You write (“Academics push back against donors’ influence after antisemitism claims at Penn”, Report, December 19) that Marc Rowan, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has queried how the Penn...
January 2, 2024
UK local government finance
Bankrupt Birmingham council takes drastic steps to balance the books
...James Brackley, from the Audit Reform Lab think-tank at Sheffield university, said cuts worth tens of millions of pounds to child and adult social care, and housing, came with huge potential knock-on costs...
February 19, 2024
US society
Gifts to Wharton fall amid campus tensions after Hamas attack on Israel
...Alumni pressure helped trigger a shake-up leading to the resignation of Scott Bok as chair of the board of trustees, and the departure of Liz Magill as president after she struggled at a congressional hearing...
April 8, 2024
UK politics
UK’s largest private sector pension fund cautions ministers on reform
...Young said the USS and university and union leaders had formed a working group to look at ways of making the scheme’s funding position more stable. “We are all pointed in the same direction,” she said....
March 3, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
FT SeriesBritain’s infrastructure impasse
Birmingham pays the price for UK’s infrastructure gap
...It will take time, says Street, but graduate opportunities are already growing as the city looks to retain more of the attendees of the city-region’s three world-class universities at Warwick, Birmingham...
January 25, 2024
Education
Academics fight back against donors’ influence after turmoil at Penn
...That mirrors similar statements on freedom of expression by staff at MIT, Columbia, Harvard and other universities in the spotlight....
December 18, 2023
Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
Can I claim against my accountant for fees to HMRC?
...Trustees are expected to attend regular board meetings (how frequently, and when, do the trustees meet?), participate in decision-making, and contribute expertise to specific projects....
April 3, 2024
Harvard University
Bill Ackman backs outsider candidates for Harvard board
...Marc Rowan, the head of Apollo Global Management, separately led a campaign against the University of Pennsylvania, which sparked the resignation of Scott Bok, chair of the board of trustees....
January 10, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Britain’s universities are on an unsustainable path
...All that is now at stake. According to Financial Times analysis, one-third of the country’s universities saw a decline in applications from overseas non-EU students last year....
January 21, 2024
Pensions industry
Infrastructure chief hits out at push for UK pension funds to invest more in Britain
...Armitt is a former chair of the National Express Group and held senior roles with the Berkeley Group as well as the Board of Transport for London....
March 15, 2024
Special ReportFT Wealth: April
Hillsdale College: the conservative model for education
...The board of trustees is chaired by Pat Sajak, a former TV game show host and a supporter of multiple right-wing political candidates....
April 12, 2024
Moral Money
‘The whole institution is boiling’: Revolt inside a key climate target group Premium content
...This week, an ill-judged statement from its board of trustees has put that hard-won reputation at risk — not least among SBTi’s own staff....
April 12, 2024
Chess
Chess: Oxford vs Cambridge almost level after 151 years
...The RAC’s excellently produced brochure shows that chess is experiencing a popularity wave at universities due to Magnus Carlsen, Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, and the easy accessibility of online speed...
March 4, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
LexUS society
US college affordability debate should focus on net cost, not sticker prices Premium content
...Schools including Wellesley, the University of Southern California, Boston University and the University of Pennsylvania all boast costs of more than $90,000 for the coming academic year....
April 21, 2024
ExplainerMedical science
What is the preventive cancer treatment Princess Catherine is receiving?
...Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham and a professor at Birmingham university....
March 24, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Magill resigns as Penn president after antisemitism backlash
...Magill arrived at Penn in July 2022 after serving as provost at the University of Virginia and dean of the Stanford Law School....
December 9, 2023
Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
Gem-A polishes its credentials as a global seat of learning
...These include Birmingham City University in the UK, and institutions such as China’s National Gemological Training Centre and the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan and Beijing....
April 9, 2024
Jacob Rothschild
Jacob Rothschild, British financier, dies aged 87
...A scion of the well-known British banking dynasty, he joined NM Rothschild after university....
February 26, 2024
Sadiq Khan
Sadiq Khan launches bid for third term as London mayor
...A YouGov poll in February for the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London gave Khan a 25-point lead over Hall, at 49 per cent to 24 per cent respectively....
March 18, 2024
News updates from January 12: China pledges to ‘smash’ Taiwan independence, US wholesale inflation declines
Harvard unveils diverse list of eight candidates for Overseers board
...“write-in” candidates backed by Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire seeking an overhaul of governance at the university....
January 12, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Universities must protect both speech and student safety
...Speech codes at private universities don’t have to follow constitutional law. These institutions could, if they chose, explicitly prohibit calls for genocide....
December 12, 2023
The Art Market
Marlborough Gallery to close as tougher times bite
...After a 78-year run, Marlborough Gallery is to close this June, a decision announced by its board of trustees on Thursday....
April 4, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The cautionary tale of Thames Water
...Scotland and Northern Ireland remain in the state sector, and David Hall, visiting professor at the University of Greenwich, says globally about 90 per cent of water and sewage services are publicly owned...
March 31, 2024

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