News reports today reveal that the Vice-chancellor of Swansea University, Prof Richard Davies, and Prof Marc Clement have been suspended (on full pay), along with two other employees, whilst an internal investigation is carried out. The university are not releasing further details at the moment only to say that the investigation does not concern "the academic performance of the university or its financial wellbeing".
Whatever the case, for those following the Swansea Bay City Deal saga this is interesting news. Both of them have been key players, particularly Prof Clement, and both recently appointed to influential positions within the exclusive SBCD club; Richard Davies as a non-voting member of the Joint Committee and Marc Clement to the Economic Strategy Board as the representative of higher education.
There has been no suggestion, of course, of any connection between the investigation, and the City Deal.
Prof Clement has had something of a controversial past, and several interesting news stories pop up on google. With regards to the City Deal, and more particularly, Mark James' 'Wellness Village', Marc Clement was a director of Kent Neurosciences, resigning just before the council entered into a 12 month 'exclusivity deal' with the company to develop the Village in April 2016.
As I have set out here, the deal was not renewed and company dissolved last year, only to re-emerge as Sterling Health, with the Dickmann clan still at the helm, and landed the contract to develop the Village. Kent Neurosciences had been behind the development of a private hospital in Kent which required a £20m bail-out.
Questions about the council's appointment of Sterling Health were brought up at the last full council meeting,Mark James' Emlyn Dole's responses were evasive and hostile.
Whatever the case, for those following the Swansea Bay City Deal saga this is interesting news. Both of them have been key players, particularly Prof Clement, and both recently appointed to influential positions within the exclusive SBCD club; Richard Davies as a non-voting member of the Joint Committee and Marc Clement to the Economic Strategy Board as the representative of higher education.
There has been no suggestion, of course, of any connection between the investigation, and the City Deal.
Prof Clement has had something of a controversial past, and several interesting news stories pop up on google. With regards to the City Deal, and more particularly, Mark James' 'Wellness Village', Marc Clement was a director of Kent Neurosciences, resigning just before the council entered into a 12 month 'exclusivity deal' with the company to develop the Village in April 2016.
As I have set out here, the deal was not renewed and company dissolved last year, only to re-emerge as Sterling Health, with the Dickmann clan still at the helm, and landed the contract to develop the Village. Kent Neurosciences had been behind the development of a private hospital in Kent which required a £20m bail-out.
Questions about the council's appointment of Sterling Health were brought up at the last full council meeting,
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| L to R; Phillipa Holt-Dickmann, Mark James, Prof Richard Davies, Emlyn Dole, Franz Dickmann and Prof Marc Clement |
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