2nd round of my health and safety distance learners today. Seemed to go about as well as first time. Fewer of them but generally responsive. Bit mystified by having been told to turn up at 1.30 only to find they were expecting me at 2. Never mind.

And another course committee - nicely done in about 70 minutes which you can' t complain about.

But first thing this morning we had a briefing on student finance from those who have to help and advise. No doubt TheOldPlace is going through exactly the same issues but students do face additional hurdles this year. What was most interesting to learn was that some bursaries are handed out but TheOldPlace and TheOldPlace's neighbour up the road are both more generous than we are. $1600 on offer instead a little over a thousand. Apparently it's not something that they use as a selling point here!