Historians: I'm writing about the Battle of Lewisham and New Cross Fire for people not likely to have studied them. What resources can I point my reader to that centre community experiences of these events over national reporting? Doesn't need to be academic. Thanks.

I'm not saying I'm having a slow writing day, but I did just have to look up the title of my own thesis 🤦

It's not often a HE Policy blog makes me laugh but @Wonkhe describing the OfS reports as 'one of the longest external examiner reports I’ve ever read' raised a wry smile.

Today I took the ‘Interim’ out of my job title and became Associate Dean for Education and Student Experience in the School of Law and Social Sciences. Luckily not-STEM subjects and post 92s are really popular with the government right now so it should be a cake walk. 😂

Lots of angry muttering for me as I support the school with clearing today. My heart goes out to all of those who had their GCSEs cancelled during COVID and whose results were then dependent on exams. Lots of educational inequality and bad policy stacked on top of each other.

Presumably the event was a simulation of how they would like the welfare state to allocate resources in future.

The HE proposal, by measuring salaries, means no appreciation of the starting point of a student, or their disadvantages. A big blow for social mobility. Also, what about where people graduate into underpaid public sector jobs where salaries are kept down?