Fair enough, 999, I missed that. I would agree with the former dean that the data on former students and the links between Ruskin College and past, present and future leaders would undoubtedly have been of interest to future historians, and regret that they appear to have gone. It's also regrettable that staff in charge of such material should still have the attitudes described. But the items listed by Fred in the OP do not appear ever to have been at risk of such destruction.

Ross