There will be three more blogs before I leave the University at the end of December. This blog is the first of a trilogy. In this, I look out at the world and at higher education at the end of 2023; in the second, I’ll look from the outside in to the University, and in…

I was in London last Wednesday evening for a meeting of a group of Vice-Chancellors with the Shadow Higher Education Minister. On Thursday morning, I walked along the Euston Road to get the 7.00 train to Sheffield, and was soaked to the skin by Storm Ciaran. I’d just about dried off by the time I…