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Sophie Thompson

Jonathan Keeble

Jeremy Swift

Caroline Burns Cooke

Cyril Nri

Marlon G Day

Gary Brown

Joyce Bryant

Drama on 4: Higher: Episode 1: The Price of Partnership

The Price of Partnership

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Episode 1: The Price of Partnership

Higher

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The new dean of research development urges partnerships abroad.

Teaching has become a dirty word at Hayborough University, and when a new dean of research development comes on board, she urges partnerships abroad.

Higher: Ep 1 The Price of Partnership by Joyce Bryant
Teaching has become a dirty word at Hayborough University and when a new Dean of Research Development comes on board she urges partnerships abroad. So an international research centre for Pier and Wharf ethics is mooted. The only problem is the person sent to set it up - academic snob and sociopath, Professor David Poll.

Produced by Gary Brown

More barbed satire from the higher education establishment ranked 132nd in the University league tables. The Department of Geography at the new University of Hayborough is under pressure to find new sources of funding and to broaden its horizons. So when a new Dean of Research Development, Cherry Swat comes on board she urges partnerships abroad. An international research centre for Pier and Wharf ethics is mooted in the African Republic of Epithea. Everything seems to be going smoothly for the university until they realise the student they have recently expelled just happens to be the President of Epithea's son.

Starring Sophie Thompson, Jeremy Swift and Jonathan Keeble.

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