The higher education sector has changed enormously since I started at the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council (PCFC)l in the early 90s.
Governments have come and gone; policies, funding reviews and regulators have all had their moment.
But there are some things that have remained absolutely consistent over the decades; the brilliance of our institutions, the impenetrable sea of acronyms in HE and the ever-present calls for a reduction in data burden.
I’ve been thinking a lot about data burden recently. At the University College of Estate Management (UCEM) my Reporting and Analysis team are responsible for a range of data returns and the challenge of managing resources to support this work is immense.
