Adding Universities to the purview of education has also been significant. My sense is that there is a lack of understanding from DfE about what HE is doing or trying to do. I’ve heard a number of senior people who have been surprised by the hostility to the sector from Labour.

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I think there’s truth in this. My feelings are that under Starmer, Labour never tried to formulate an approach to tackling the UKs problems; their approach was the Tory’s are right, but only we can deliver it. See the OfS, which was designed to troll for culture wars, not act as a regulator.

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Almost every time I think it will be quicker I end up spending so much time checking the really unintuitive code it produced that more often then not I rewrite most of it just to be sure. But the other day it joined four pdfs to one page in one prompt, so there’s that…

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Yes - we do at least have to try - which is something I am involved in through local union organising (tho complicated by being in a devolved region). I really fear the worse tho

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Britain's universities are in freefall. If we go on like this a large number cannot and will not survive. Here's some ideas about how to save them. Clue: abolish the Office for Students immediately. www.arguably.uk/p/how-to-sav...

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