Fees increase, efficiency, Trump

The Wonkhe Show

This week on the podcast the Westminster government has announced a fee increase - but will it be enough, and can universities even impose it?

Plus the government is on a “renewed drive for efficiency” in universities, and we consider the implications of the results of the US Election.

With Brooke Storer-Church, Chief Executive Officer at GuildHE, Johnny Rich, Chief Executive at the Engineering Professors’​ Council and Push, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar at City St George’s University of London, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief at Wonkhe.

• Bridget Phillipson increases fees by 3.1 per cent
• An increase in maintenance loans gets blunted by fiscal drag
• Fees are going up to £9,535. Or are they?
• Seizing the current policy moment – from cost-savings to radical efficiency
• Collaboration is already baked in to the sector, and we need to see more of it
• Deeper collaboration key to securing the future of UK higher education

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