Tine to start blogging again – I read so much stuff, internal and external, that I need a place to keep my my thoughts and the comments of colleagues – for the moment, this seems like the best place to do that.

My main work this year will be about:

• improving student experience
• improving undergraduate retention rates
• understanding league tables, and the factors that go to make them up
• developing models of the performance of the academic portfolio

So – any posts here are likely to be about those 4 main areas, plus any little gems I pick up published elsewhere.