As I write, we’ve only 65 days to go before practical completion of our new building. At that moment, our building contractors Bovis Lend Lease will complete their involvement in this remarkable project, and hand over the ‘keys’ to us so we can get started fitting out the building. Just to be inside it at last, transforming this glamorous, tessellated shell into a workable, living and breathing space will be truly fantastic.
We have a tenacious, hard-working relocation team managing all of this on our behalf, and they’re doing a fine job of it. Contracts for all sorts of fixtures, fittings, facilities and technology are being negotiated and secured as we speak. The scale of it all, for what is a relatively small, but highly functioning space, never ceases to amaze me.
In the news again this week, we are offered more cogitating from the gods of academia and politics on the future of HE, following last week’s Guardian HE Summit. We are all in no doubt that we are facing tough and uncertain times: possible change in government, major review into tuition fees, tough budget cuts, to name a few. But at least we’ll have more clarity on the latter very soon, when this week (18 March) all HEIs receive grant letters from HEFCE. Only then can we really embark on the difficult financial journey ahead.
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