21 June 2017 
Karel Thomas, Executive Director
The next London and SE regional meeting will be held at Birkbeck next Wednesday, 28th June. If you haven't registered, but want to join us, please follow this link and make your booking before the end of today as Keith Willett needs to know how many cakes to bake.
As well as the usual updates, we are looking forward to hearing from Baroness Alison Wolf, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s College London. As many of you know, Alison sits as a cross-bench peer in the House of Lords and was very involved in the debates on the HE Bill. She has also written about women in the workplace and the gender pay gap in her latest book, the XX Factor: How Working Women are Creating a New Society and is the author of the 2011 Wolf Report – A review of vocational education. She made the case for an Apprenticeship Levy in a report for the Social Market Foundation in 2015 and is guaranteed to give us some food for thought.
The South West meeting will be held on Friday 7th July at the University of Brighton and also has a packed agenda of topical issues. We will also enjoy a working dinner on the 6th July, preceded by a visit to the i360, so book as soon as possible please.
All regional meeting dates are on the BUFDG website and if you have not confirmed your attendance at the autumn meetings, now's the perfect time to do it. 2018 dates will be up there soon.
