on. well, the first thing i would say is of course, the university admissions process has been an utter chaos this year because of the fiasco of the exa miasco of the exam results that we had earlier in august. this proposal that we are putting forward gives much more time properly to plan how we can manage a later exam session and still have time for results and marking and admissions to take place. i would have thought, in fact, i am very sure that universities would say, " if sure that universities would say, "if you give us longer to plan, we can make much better arrangements", thanif can make much better arrangements", than if you go right up to the why and we have the kind of incompetent chaos we have seen with this year's a—level and gcse results. i don't pretend this is simple. there are not ideal solutions in the situation we're in but i know to say is the government minister has apparently just said that it is far too soon to be thinking about this strikes me as utterly irresponsible. we need to be doing the planning now, the contingency planning and it is a com plete contingency planning and it is a complete abnegation of the