Podcast: Labour conference, access and participation, free speech

This week on the show we’ve been to Labour Party Conference. Was anything of interest for higher education announced?

Plus the Office for Students has been revising its approach to access and participation, there’s new research out on perceptions of free speech among both students and the wider public, and UCU has a report out on staff and social class.

With Claire Taylor, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Wrexham Glyndŵr University, Andrew Bush, Director of Higher Education Internal Audit and Advisory lead at KPMG, James Coe, Associate Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Mark Leach, editor in chief at Wonkhe.

Featured on the show this week

• What are students thinking about free speech now?
• John Blake deletes the cheat codes to access and participation.
• Institutional barriers hold back working class staff in colleges & universities, report shows.