Birkbeck says it has seen falls in its own student numbers of a similar magnitude.
As Birkbeck President, she is following in the footsteps of well-known historian Professor Eric Hobsbawm.
But there is not much hard evidence of that yet, according to Ted Melhuish of Birkbeck College in London.
Prof Grayling is a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Between 1966 and 1975 she was a lecturer at the London School of Economics and in 1987 was appointed Master of Birkbeck College.
Mr Slater, a professor emeritus of Victorian literature at Birkbeck College, London, has probably forgotten more about Dickens than most people will ever know.
Birkbeck, University of London, specialises in part-time higher education courses and says it has seen a fall in applications which mirrors the national picture.
Thus Birkbeck's Ms Sibert thinks that continental countries will have to make their labour markets freer and that Britain's housing market will also adjust.
According to Ian Crawford, a planetary scientist at Birkbeck, University of London, the moon is the best place to look to find more evidence.
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She added that London was home to "more universities than there are in the whole of Australia" but that Birkbeck would be happy to "welcome Liverpool to the capital".
The president of Birkbeck, University of London, says higher fees and a failure to communicate new rights to government loans for part-time students has led to a 40% drop in England.
Orlando Figes, professor of history at London's Birkbeck College, says Mr Putin's home city of St Petersburg may be a window on Europe, but it can also been seen as a fortress against foreign opponents.
"There would be a long way to go before these fads could be said to be anything more than just fads, " says Dr Helen Barrett, developmental psychologist and research fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Prof Annette Karmiloff-Smith, of Birkbeck, University of London, said that rather than focusing on the possible adverse effects of TV and video games, it would be better to look at what positive impact they could have on children.
Lady Bakewell says she intends to use her new role at Birkbeck - which specialises in evening and part-time courses and is part of the University of London - to exert pressure on government to support part-time higher education.
At a conference convened last August by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas, Dennis Snower, professor of economics at Birkbeck College in London, suggested that the main force behind income inequality might be changes in the way companies are organised.
Last June, at a conference at Tate Modern sponsored by the Kramlichs on the impact of digital technology on art, Laura Mulvey, who is professor of film and media at Birkbeck College, London, spoke about new artistic possibilities in the projection of film fragments or in the showing of whole films in new ways.
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