Alan Sked, emeritus professor at LSE

By Nic Mitchell

Nic Mitchell set-up De la Cour Communications in 2012 to encourage international student mobility and help European universities publicise their collaborative research and other activities with native English-language editorial. He has worked with universities in Sweden, Norway and the Czech Republic as well as the UK. Nic also provides opinion-leading journalism to higher education media, with his reports published in University World News, BBC, Times Higher and PIE News over the years. He won the CIPR Outstanding Higher Education Journalism Award for an investigation into Lithuania's brain drain for the BBC in 2015 and is available for short-term editorial projects for universities and others. Email him at Nic.delacourcomms@gmail.com