2023

This started with a photocopied list. A teacher in Chamchamal showed us the sheet her students were using to choose a university: eleven names, no fees, no entry scores, no contact details, photocopied so many times that half of it was unreadable.

We asked nine institutions to bring an admission officer and a table for two days, and to write their entry score and tuition on the wall behind them. All nine agreed. That is the whole of the first edition.

Four thousand two hundred people came. We had planned for a thousand. Next year we will need a programme, and rooms, and a plan for the parents who stood in the corridor because we had not thought to make space for them.