Master a subject that matters to us all: the future of the academy.

The author discusses the need for the British academic community to focus on the future of the sector. He says with the 1988 Education Reform Act, academics started losing their security of tenure and have since then come under line management, which is seen in the increase of short-term contracts. He believes that doing preparations and keeping up are essential in maintaining the future of the educational sector, even if it is a given that there can be no future without it.