Financial sustainability, cold spots, student housing

This week on the podcast the sector’s financial woes continue - just how bad is it and are regulators on top of the problem? Plus there’s a new report out on subject cold spots, and student housing is back in the news.

With Gavan Conlon, leader of the Education and Labour Market teams at London Economics, Sally Burtonshaw, Director of the Education Practice at Public First, James Coe, Associate Editor at Wonkhe, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar at City St George’s University of London, and presented by Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief at Wonkhe.

Do we need a league table of scholars produced by Silicon Valley?

There are cold spots in arts, humanities, and social sciences provision

Is it reasonable to expect higher education institutions to be more business-like?

Governing bodies need to prepare and plan now for a different future

VAT is not always the barrier to shared services that it is thought to be

Universities need a plan to manage future HE provision. So does the government

The regulator does not have a handle on the financial state of English higher education

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