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Very glad you are. I wanted an Ireland win but not a walkover.

Tells you a lot about their imagined audience.

An in-game ad. About PDFs. With a faux-soul song about PDFs.

Never mind the wokies, the hipsters or whomever else has been accused of hastening the end of civilisation. *This* is the low point.

#IREvWAL.

Admirable work.

I always fancied teaching there. We scattered my old English teacher’s ashes in the garden of the law school - he had a heart attack just after starting a PhD in children’s human rights.

I suspect lots of the staff do. It’s just him and his team not wanting to do enough work.

Very relieved on your behalf.

Ha ha ha no.

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It’s difficult but good for my soul.

Agreed.

Absolutely. He probably hasn’t noticed the existence of the several widening participation universities near his campus either.

Actually that was a wise decision.

Damn right.

Absolutely. Having them in the room is great for everyone.

Good idea. I’m hoping the Guild of Students have a stern word with him on behalf of people who’ve been publicly written off as undeserving of a place.

I am not feeling a scintilla of schadenfreude at the news that the senior manager who passionately defended doing business in dictatorships is stuck in one dictatorship while another dictatorship’s drones rain down explosives on his location. That would be deeply uncharitable and unworthy.

You’ll never get to be a VC with that attitude.

And they’re the ones who actually meet prospective students. He’ll never have an uncomfortable conversation for the rest of his career.

That’s him.

I do feel sorry for UoB staff, saddled with this embarrassment as the public face of the institution. Mind you, that could be said of a number of universities.

FFS. Idiots.

I’d blanked out the incompatible grades! We did offer a decent foundation course after Access disappeared but it soon got merged into a very general one that leaves nobody happy or prepared.

It really is.

What a breathtakingly stupid decision it was, especially when people are being urged to retrain.

Same here. They were just so ready and so eager.

And there’s Keith whose career went from coal miner to access course to professor of history. Adam Tickell wouldn’t have wanted either of them.

Then there’s Gary. By the time I knew him he was the university’s copyright officer. Before that he worked in steel mills until he got sick of being made redundant and walked into the university during his lunch break and signed up for an English degree.

I loved the Birkbeck model - several of my friends thrived there.

There used to be FE Access courses whose students were far better prepared for university than anyone else. I really miss that intake.

He’s got form with this stuff. A thoroughgoing rotter.