8/20 For a working class kid was very much not classically educated, in fact I was a mature student who funded his education on credit cards and restaurant pay, the dream of a life in side the ivory tower was somewhat fantastical.

9/20 Whatever anyone's origin story in HE, for most of us there is an ingrained commitment to scholarship, teaching and the ideal of the university as a space of knowledge. Often come into conflict with the realities of the modern academic environment: