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David Chiddick, a former town planner and current vice-chancellor of Lincoln University, has, as a result of concerns that the Lincolnshire region faces economic isolation and decline, developed a vision for how the region could look in 2020 with the aim of realising Lincoln's potential as "one of the world's great small cities". Some of the objectives of Chiddick's vision include addressing the problems of the region's failing agricultural businesses, making Lincoln a world leader in the new media and getting the city's cathedral quarter designated a World Heritage site in 2010.
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Caroline Williams is head of the Defence School of Healthcare Studies, which is one of eight schools within the faculty of health and community care at the University of Central England in Birmingham and also part of the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. As such she reports to two bosses and has to be true to both; upholding military standards while also developing teaching and learning skills.
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Paul Ramsden, the head of the newly formed Higher Education Academy, argues that universities and academics should not treat fee-paying students simply as customers, rather they should let the students buy into "learning partnerships". Ramsden notes that just treating students as customers is not actually very good for learning and that the students need to be more involved in the process.
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