The Wonkhe Show

his week on the podcast we take a look at OfS’ new review of admissions, assess the impact of coronavirus on the sector, and look at whether we’re about to see the return of student number controls. We also have a look at a new HEPI report on “levelling up”.With Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief of Wonkhe; Vivienne Stern, Director of Universities UK International; David Bell; Vice Chancellor of the University of Sunderland; and Graeme Wise, Contributing Editor at Wonkhe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we discuss Tortoise’s investigation into sexual misconduct at UK universities, consider UPP’s research into public perception of higher education, and dissect polling done on UUK’s behalf about perceptions into university admissions. We also look at the Office for Students’ insight brief into the National Student Survey.With Justine Andrew, Market Director for Education and Skills at KPMG; Pete Quinn, independent higher education consultant and Debbie McVitty; Editor at Wonkhe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the podcast Universities UK is proposing new VFM indicators, there’s new analysis on teaching and learning and mental health, universities are being accused of using NDAs to gag student complainants and we chat Open Access with UKRI.With Vanessa Wilson CEO at University Alliance, Andy Youell - writer, speaker and strategic data advisor and Wonkhe's editor Debbie McVitty. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Wonkhe Show is a recruitment special, in association with SMRS.We take a first look at the UCAS data on January deadline application data, consider the politics of universities’ offer-making in 2020, and discuss where the lines are when marketing to students. The panel also speculates about how university recruitment practices may change over the next decade as we anticipate rapid growth in demand for HE.Hosted by Mark Leach, Editor in Chief of Wonkhe, with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS; Dan Beynon, Head of Education at SMRS; and Alison Kerwin, Director of Marketing at the University of Liverpool. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the podcast we have a look at the ups and downs of the end of cycle UCAS figures. There's an OfS analysis of access and participation plans out, we think about the implications of a reduction of research bureaucracy and a quick look at immigration and HE.With Rachel Hall, Universities Editor at the Guardian, Amatey Doku, a Consultant at the Nous Group and David Kernohan, Associate Editor at Wonkhe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the podcast we consider the implications of another delay to the government's response to the Augar review of post-18 fees and funding.  There's a suite of new reports out on access, we look at casualisation, and DK has been poring over new LEO data.With Mary Curnock Cook, independent higher education expert, and Nick Petford, Vice Chancellor of the University of Northampton Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the podcast we're back in the UK and discussing Nottingham Trent's intervention into the ongoing row about offer making in universities. We also discuss the spec for the first run at the Knowledge Exchange Framework, a new report on research culture and we look at the press coverage over the Sheffield students being paid to tackle racist language on campus.With Nick Hillman, Director at HEPI and Jenny Shaw, Student Experience Director at Unite. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the podcast we're live from Helsinki where the Wonkhe SUs European Study Tour has been reflecting on meeting friends from across Europe. We also chat OfS regulation on harassment and sexual assault and a new HEPI report on learning languages.With Eve Alcock, President at Bath Uni SU; Jazz Nesbitt-Larking, President at Bath Spa SU; Katie Smyth, President at Newcastle Uni SU; Gary Hughes, CEO at Durham SU; and Vicky Saward-Read, VP at Kent SU. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Wonkhe Show podcast is on its Christmas break, so as a special treat we’ve rolled up Season 2 of the Hidden History of HE into two special box sets.Every week Nottingham Trent’s Academic Registrar Mike Ratcliffe delves deep into the sector’s past to find out how things were and how things came to be. This week in part 2 Mike looks at the development of the doctorate, the regular execution of university chancellors, the origins of public funding of universities in the UK, the era of university MPs, when VCs met the PM, and the creation of the CATs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Wonkhe Show podcast is on its Christmas break, so as a special treat we’ve rolled up Season 2 of the Hidden History of HE into two special box sets.Every week Nottingham Trent’s Academic Registrar Mike Ratcliffe delves deep into the sector’s past to find out how things were and how things came to be. This week in part 1 Mike looks back at attempts to ban the Oxbridge tradition of awarding MAs, the time when the Government closed HE colleges they'd just opened, the end of the binary divide between universities and polytechnics, the battle build new universities (including the towns that lost), and the vision we used to have for student accommodation.Look out for Part 2 next week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.