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Will the interim OfS chair be expected to lead a rationalisation programme for universities?
Yesterday morning, as your Playbook email was heading towards the torpedo tubes, education secretary Bridget Phillipson was making an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. This followed universities making front page news in the Sunday papers.
As we reported in yesterday’s edition, an announcement on an interim chair for the Office for Students is expected this week. Phillipson confirmed this in the radio interview—Chris Parr was listening in.