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The New Professionals

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Some are newly-created posts within Mrs Thatcher 's Britain. Others are old professions having to learn new tricks. All are poised precariously between the public and private sectors.
' David Walker looks at three groups of people carrying through a radical shift in values.
1: Enterprising Professors Under financial pressure, nearly every university and college in the land has started to talk about commercial contracts and new ways of attracting students, especially from overseas. Into the groves of academe have come the professional fund-raisers and the philosophy of the market place.
Producer JOY HATWOOD

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