This week on the podcast we examine the latest attacks on international student recruitment as Policy Exchange calls for new restrictions and a £1,000 levy on international fees.
Are universities really “selling immigration not education,” and what would raising English language requirements to advanced level mean for the sector?
Plus we discuss what incoming student leaders are promising in their manifestos – from subsidised laundry to lecture materials uploaded in advance – and ask whether the new metascience unit can deliver on its promise of a more efficient and transparent research funding system.
With Duncan Ivison, President and Vice Chancellor at the University of Manchester, Vicki Stott, Chief Executive at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, Debbie McVitty, Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.
What an amazing super power held by Rory Stewart, he can look at a student and instantly tell if they are high quality or not, and how long they have spent in the UK (a few weeks he thought) and how much they will contribute to UK society post their graduation, impressive indeed from the clearly unbiased failed Tory leader candidate, and Eton, Oxford and Yale alumnus.