Researching Jonathan Nicholls
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The name Jonathan means "God gives" and is of Hebrew origin.
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Jonathan Nicholls
Jonathan William Nicholas Nicholls (born 16 June 1956) was the Registrary of the University of Cambridge from October 2007.He retired from this post at the end of 2016, at which point Emma Rampton became Acting Registrary.
Nicholls was educated at Culford School, the University of Bristol (first class English degree, 1978), and Emmanuel College (PhD, English, 1984). He was a Herchel Smith Scholar at Harvard. His career began at the University of Warwick, where he was appointed registrar, moving to Birmingham University in 2004. He is a non-executive director of Graduate Prospects and a member of both the national Joint Negotiating Committee for Higher Education Staff and the Advisory Board of the Institute for Higher Education Policy.
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