Matthew Parris….”The drinks, though, were “essential”. There was simply no way that one of the Herberts in skinny jeans could be allowed to leave the sinking ship without raiding the press office wine fridge and cracking open the Pringles” thetimes.co.uk/article/0e362e…

One for you WGCCC

Thanks to Tim, Jason and Nick Snowdon for their excellent session and to the @smrsltd team for producing another great piece of insight into an important market

2023 is yet another hard to read UK undergraduate application cycle - here's how the team @smrsltd are helping universities make their way through the uncertainty.... linkedin.com/pulse/heres-ho… via LinkedIn

The England Cricket team may be heading for a massive win but the Cricket Ireland jumpers have already given our sweaters a complete shellacking #ENGvIRE

If you’re looking forward to tomorrow - watch this….. instagram.com/reel/CtgC5WSBG…

Today’s the day…..good luck England Cricket just came across this street in London… David Warner it’s (actually) a sign!

We can have a debate about the quality of university courses. But the first question to a politician advocating fewer kids go to university is to ask them where they went/where their kids go/went. Too often they’re not talking about themselves or their kids, but someone else’s.

“Bodies have been wrapped in blankets and dumped in the Thames more tenderly than Crawley and Root treated one of Australia’s most accomplished Test pace attacks” thetimes.co.uk/article/311aef…

Cricket really doesn’t help itself…Test Match Special - the players are now going to spend possibly the only dry hour of the day eating. And the wait until 12.20 for the early lunch? Why? Are they making their own? Madness…..

This is an important piece - I hope @halfon4harlowMP gets sight of it….we need more than information to make this work…..The problems degree apprenticeships won't solve wonkhe.com/blogs/the-prob… via Wonkhe

Wow…. Rishi Sunak being very very hard in his conference speech on whoever has been running this country for the last decade or more….they must be a total shower…..

Big finish to this post and one he could maybe use again when reflecting on some of his own big decisions "I regret this decision and in years to come I suspect many will look back at today’s announcement and wonder how this once-in-a-generation opportunity was lost"

🗨️"Normally, world leaders are only too keen to extol the virtues of their world-leading institutions and industries, yet it is unfathomable why the UK Prime Minister is intent on talking down the very sector that can lift the nation up as we head into an uncertain future."

This is one of the many different life changing ‘outcomes’ that policy makers need to consider when we think about the role of our great and diverse set of universities….University of Bradford tops list for social mobility for third year bbc.co.uk/news/education…

Without a strategy that supports our world leading higher education sector, policies like this will lead to university closures and many less places at our great universities for UK students. And this was his New Year's Day tweet......what a fool.

This is a lovely piece….Taking my kids to football brings us together like nothing else thetimes.co.uk/article/taking…

Let’s hope we start to see more influential voices making this case….policymakers need to realise quickly the huge damage they are about to inflict on the HE sector… Our universities are in peril. Scaring off foreign students won’t help thetimes.co.uk/article/f43ce7…

More joined up thinking…just as UK Prime Minister decides to do all they can to make it harder to be a graduate….DfE suggests we may need more graduates wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/df… via Wonkhe

It’s definitely the cricket season when the announcement of the 2024 Summer General Election is delayed by the rain.