In case you missed the broadcast, the transcript of Professor Mary Beard’s “Point of View” Radio 4 talk last Friday is well worth reading. She questions the current preoccupation in HE with student surveys, both national and local, and suggests:

“………maybe the right time to be asking someone about what they got out of their course at university is not when they are still in it, or as they are just leaving it, but five, 10, 20 years later, when they’ve got some perspective on what difference it made to their lives.”

Just what alumni blogs do?

“Mary Beard is a wickedly subversive commentator on both the modern and the ancient world. She is a professor in classics at Cambridge and classics editor of the TLS.”  Read her TLS blog “A Don’s Life”.