“The Scale of our Ambition” highlights Cambridge as one of a handful of truly world-changing universities and one of the UK’s greatest national assets.
“We are curators of an 800-year-old institution,” he said, “Which has the potential to last many centuries more. We have a responsibility to the past, and especially to the future. How are we to discharge that responsibility?
“What actions must we take today to ensure our place tomorrow among the leaders, forcing the pace, keeping the world’s greatest universities contributing to the utmost of their potential?
“I offer three answers. First, Cambridge needs to grow. Second, we need to change; and third, we need to ensure that growth and change are informed at every step by our values, our principles, and by the spirit and ambition that have seen us flourish for our first eight centuries.”
The Vice-Chancellor drew attention to a growth opportunity of national importance: the chance to develop a new quarter of the city, North West Cambridge, and to make an investment now in the Cambridge community which would ensure the University’s academic health for the years to come.
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