Sir Graeme Davies

http://www.offa.org.uk/press-releases/new-interim-director-of-fair-access/

Cancer is always a nasty business, so I wish Sir Martin well.

I've heard some colleagues speculate as to whether the Interim Director will take a different view on OFFA's powers or somehow do the job differently than the previous Director would have done. It seems to me that Sir Graeme Davies is the safest pair of hands in the business, and personifies non-boat-rocking even more than Sir Martin did before him. Appointing him to shake the foundations of English HE would be like appointing Samson as a Philistine building safety inspector.