The veteran policy analyst and influencer has seen it all – multiple times – as head of the Innovative Research Universities lobby

In CMM this morning he offers some advice to practitioners, “the arguments we put forward will be self-interested but they should still be credible, take some account of the supporting evidence and avoid gross simplifications that are laughable.

“If I can see a large hole in what we might say then the chances are strong that the person we say it too will see the same hole, if not several others.”

And he suggests what makes things happen, “education follows the big drivers.”

Which makes his point on the “most significant education change” of our times. What that was is here.