Steven T. Jones

1 week ago | wonkhe.com | Steven T. Jones |Mark Leach

It’s a thankless job being a university governor at the best of times. The structures and hierarchies – established over decades, even centuries – feel impenetrable. You’re overwhelmed with papers and reading, never completely sure what’s going on at meetings. Statutes and ordinances, rules and regulations, sub-committees and working groups. And all this you’re doing for free? But during precarious times for the sector, the job gets even harder. Income lags further behind expenditure.