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When you think about governance in
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higher education, what's the moment that
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captures its reality for you?
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>> I think my first ever Board of Governors
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meeting at Birkbeck [music] as
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Vice-Chancellor, and we were talking
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about whether we were a going concern or
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not. That really did crystallize my
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thinking because although you get the
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information before you start job, you
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never get quite the information that
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makes you realize how against the wire
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you are.
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>> What was that like stepping in on the
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kind of first meeting?
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>> Bewildering, exhilarating, terrifying,
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but it had to be doable. There There was
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no alternative.
