James Drummond Bone is a Britishacademic. He is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool and president of Universities UK. Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... // Universities A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ... The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. ... Universities UK began life as the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom (CVCP) in the nineteenth century when there were informal meetings involving Vice-Chancellors of a number of universities and Principals of university colleges. ...