As if five jobs weren’t already enough, it was announced yesterday that the former chancellor George Osborne has been appointed as an honorary professor of economics at the University of Manchester. Osborne will not be leading any courses but will be expected to deliver guest lectures. The appointment of an economic policymaker who is not an economist by training makes a bold statement about the way the university wishes to approach the teaching of the subject.
The appointment has also been viewed as a development of the “northern powerhouse” agenda, with Manchester University representing a bastion of cutting-edge research in the “beating heart” of the project.
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