@Sony What's the point of your products having a warranty if your website makes it impossible to work out how to return the product to you for repair/refund?

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So who should I follow on the other place?

Give it time, Graeme.

Off to Newcastle...

But Trump.

Being Head of an academic school is a much more stressful, onerous, responsible and non-enjoyable job than being a mere professor, but the extra pay is minimal to non-existent.

Or move to Australia/Canada.

Where is the evidence that league tables do anything but encourage managers to juke the stats? In schools? In universities? amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampp…

A hint on why some UK universities are struggling to recruit senior staff in an international market where pay in UK HE is just not competitive. One of these jobs will be the pinnacle of a career. The other is entry level. The pay scales overlap.

This is too little, too late, but still good to see a major economy take steps to reduce emissions #keepitintheground bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly0gzxg…

The whole university funding debate feels like we're fighting over scraps while missing the point: in a world where AI can do much of what we teach students to do, what are universities for?

Could we not adopt a more positive vision; that the expansion of HE opens the door for more people - and the country as a whole - to benefit from the joy of learning and the development it brings?

Please don't get me wrong. I don't think everything is rosy in the HE garden. I'm just asking for a deeper consideration of what HE is for.

You have been using that measure (and misleadingly comparing the lower part of the distribution for graduates to the average for non-graduates). But the wider problem is the absence of attention to the question of what HE is for, apart from financial return.

What do you think 'value for money' mean in HE? (The measure you've been using - graduate pay - does not measure the quality of education).

That's a problem that's built into today's system, which your focus on financial ROI perpetuates. We need to rethink why we've turned HE into a pseudo-market, with all its perverse incentives, not just worry about how to make uni's more accountable to students.

BTW, it's the same with rankings and league tables. Most people in uni's know they are misleading, manipulable BS. But managers and marketeers go along with the ranking game because that's the market that govt policy has created.

Out of curiosity: when you chose a university course, on what basis did you choose it?

Yes, I wish university marketing departments (as well as jounalists) would avoid using graduate pay as a measure of quality (which it is not). But that is forced upon them by the financial view of HE which your article also adopts.