It was another shorter week again, as I took another day’s leave. This time no crazy extreme day out.

On Tuesday I headed off to London for an early morning event the following day. Wednesday I was up early and headed to the Houses of Parliament for a HEPI and Advance HE breakfast briefing 

This was an interesting briefing on the current challenges facing the sector in collaborating and specialising. I was reminded of the post I recently wrote on bridge building. Collaboration and specialisation should be seen as solutions to the wider issues facing the sector. The discussion very much saw collaboration as the problem to be solved and that the solution (to the solution) was spending more money.

This week was also the week of Digifest, Jisc’s annual conference. I was not there this year, as I wasn’t needed for presenting or chairing. It is an useful event for making connections and conversations, but we had a number of Jisc people attending, so I wasn’t going to be missed. In addition most of the conversations I am interested in are more likely to be covered at different kinds of events.