So, the final pile of 30 pre-15 Jan UCAS forms will be in my hands tomorrow, and then it will take me a few days to make my final offers. More offers are being processed all the time, as well: I gave a pile of 70 to central admissions on Monday and these should be appearing on UCAS soon.

This is a busy and stressful time, as I try to keep the standard of the forms I am accepting constant between old and new applications. It’s great to have high demand for our courses, but it also brings headaches: it means I have to regretfully reject some folks that I’d very much like to accept, especially in P+E where demand is up 30%. Plus, in the tightened funding environment we operate in since 9k fees and the government quota changes, everyone is wanting to keep an eye on how many offers I make and at what level. I’m spending a fair amount of time checking with the Head of department and the Dean of faculty about these things.

Updates to the blog have been less frequent than I’d like – this is partly due to the recent arrival of my baby boy, James, a couple of weeks back. I’m only just back from Paternity, and straight into a maelstrom of difficult choices…

I’ll try to post something after the first open day later this week. Don’t panic if you haven’t received an offer yet, we have more open days on 29 Feb and 8 March, and Gillian’s keyboard in central admissions is running hot.(Gillian: if you’re reading this, get back to work :-P)