Welcome colleagues to issue 87 of the monthly FACE e-Bulletin. And wow, what a month it has been with various higher education stakeholders getting their share of the media spotlight.

In no particular order, and together with the really impressive Developing your Access Agreement 2016-17 event, OFFA published their Strategic Plan, University Alliance (amongst others) published their response, Million+ published their Manifesto for universities, HEPI published their new book, 'What do I get?' and of course the Labour party made their announcement on tuition fees attracting swift responses from (for example) Universities UK. I anticipate as we get closer to the election, it's unlikely to quieten down...

So, in this issue we have one or two updates about FACE 2015 plus another look at the upcoming Social Mobility conference in Scotland on 15 May. We also have the usual details about other upcoming events for your diaries and some recent topical news articles - notwithstanding those mentioned above.

If we have made a glaring omission, please get in touch using the details below.

Jamie

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