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Oxford Won't Let Outsiders Run University

December 19, 2006 RSS Feed Print

Outsiders will not take positions on Oxford University's governing board, the school's vice chancellor announced yesterday, admitting defeat of a plan he hoped would help modernize the ancient university. The vice chancellor's plan would have handed over control of the university's finances to outsiders. But members of the university's Congregation, a 4,000-member parliament, voted against the plan, the BBC reports.

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