Two years can certainly fly by; sometimes that means that July 2008 seems to be only yesterday but sometimes it is hard to imagine life before that date. In the case of sigma-sw which held its initial development meeting in that month I err towards the later sense.
A brief sentence in a funding bid to sigma was the spark that ignited the idea of regional hubs and having been at the heart of this pilot I am delighted to see that sigma-sw was deemed sufficiently successful that support from the HE STEM programme will now allow the regional hub programme to be rolled out nationally. It seems timely therefore to review what we have done and how we have done it and to look forward to how we will try to make best use of this hub structure over the next two years.
