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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Would that mean dropping the ‘sponsored by Reform’ tagline?

Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It’s a good article, but much of the benefit is dependent on universities being willing to change their processes and policies and to standardise. Then the tech can really support. In my view you need a tech vision and an institutional rather than siloed cultural response.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

One element I don’t see covered is the impact of more reporting / regulation on increasing administrative costs. Every policy, e.g. UKVI monitoring, is a new cost. What sector is caused by OfS regs rather than HEFCE days. I’m not making moral judgment about either, just noting financial impact.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

In my experience (of multiple universities) they tend not to recognise and fully appreciate the differences in very different models and don’t align skills, tech, governance or investment, rather trying to flex from existing models. There are, of course, those that do, and have very successfully!

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Nice article. I was involved in a joint venture of 2 UK universities offering global DL/online programmes. We had clear processes, dedicated systems and specialist functions. The closer to the traditional university the more it was compromised by trying to fit to existing ways of working.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Oslo a couple of months back. Fantastic, thoroughly recommend, and a place where runners, pedestrians, cyclists and electric scooters all appear to coexist sensibly without angry exchanges unlike some cities in the UK.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Have you come across any good discussions about whether we actually should be trying to retain all the current universities? This seems to be a comfortable assumption without evidence one way or another?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

'James Brackley...co-author of a recent paper that ascribed a risk score to every UK university based on several factors including debt levels and net cash inflow, said there were universities in trouble “in every category”'. More data, more bleak. 3/3

isrf.org

University Finances Are in a Perilous State – It’s the Result of Market Competition and Debt-Based Expansion

James Brackley, Adam Leaver and David Yates explore the causes of the fiscal crisis currently gripping the higher education sector in the UK.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

How did our universities get into this morass of existential crisis? Number five: their governance structures and capacity simply are not up to the impossible task being asked of them. Never have been, and never could have been: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

prospectmagazine.co.uk

Crash course

The UK’s universities are among the best in the world. So why do many appear close to collapse?

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

But yes, the danger of shiny distractions doesn’t help. AI anyone?

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

I suspect some fall exactly into that. I think buildings and physical infrastructure are part of lived experience from childhood, so take little effort, but IT has to be learnt (repeatedly) and so links and impacts are not natural responses. System 1 versus system 2 thinking as Kahneman would say.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

One of the reasons less discussed (in my view) is because much of tech infrastructure is not visible or understood by non-IT. If you say a building’s foundations are crumbling then everyone intuitively understands the problem and the consequences. The same can’t be said for IT foundations.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 20/01/2024

I agree. As usual look for who set the rules of the game, not just who participated. That being said, everyone makes their own choices.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 05/01/2024

Happy New Year Lawrie. Looking at LinkedIn, so many “congratulations to..” or “my company is amazing because…” it’s becoming organisational instagram. We could probably write 80% of the posts with AI.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

Good article. So many times we hear/say we will need to train/upskill/develop our people, but when universities are increasingly run so lean there is no time to do this. The article calls this out well.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

That’s deeply unpleasant. The demise of Twitter is a shame, for a while it was one platform that was useful, informative and enjoyable. Nothing last forever, but different groups have found different answers which, for me, loses some of the surprise factor.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Morning Helen, part of the Twitter exodus (or X-odus?), nice to see you here.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 11/11/2023

An antidote to a computer shaped week, sat listening to the chattering oystercatchers and occasional mournful curlew as the day decides whether to rain or shine.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Worryingly nothing about digital capabilities and creativity for academics, professional services or students?

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Unsurprisingly my usage, reading and posting, in Twitter has also decreased, my use of Flipboard has increased. I suspect it’s part device, part time of day, but it has changed the balance of subjects I tend to engage with. It’s a lot more fragmented.

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Dan P @danperry.bsky.social · 31/10/2023

I breathed a sigh of relief joining here and reading some posts. It's social rather than anti-social media. I can find the people I respect and it's positive. It also shows what has been lost in some other platforms. Hello everyone!

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