Jump to full article: The Scotsman, 2001-05-18
Author: RICHARD SMITH
Intro: Nottingham University looks either grasping, naive, or foolish; all are bad for a university that wants to be a world leader in thinking and study.
The vice-chancellor seems to have convinced himself that taking the money is acceptable because the industry is legal and because Universities UK (the committee of vice-chancellors and principals) and the Cancer Research Campaign say it’s all right (a curious position for an organisation that is supposedly doing all it can to reduce deaths from cancer).
But many other people and organisations - particularly those concerned about health - will think it entirely wrong to take the money.
It’s thus the medical school that will suffer, while it’s the business school that gets the money. The medical school has in a remarkably short time achieved a high reputation among British medical schools. The university now puts that at risk.
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