Podcast: Labour, skills, Medr

This week on the podcast Team Wonkhe has been at Labour Conference in Liverpool – we discuss what was and wasn’t said about higher education.

Plus there’s news on skills (and in particular Level 7 apprenticeships), Hidden History looks at how HE came to be publicly funded, and Wales’ new tertiary regulator has a plan.

With Pam Macpherson Barrett, Head of Policy and Regulation at the University of Leeds, Aaron Porter, Chair at BPP University and Deputy Chair at Goldsmiths, University of London, 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.

• Students should expect less of universities and more of everyone else
• More sharp suits than a Burton’s window
• The Jacqui Smith doctrine
• Who should pay for relief for students and universities?
• A strategic plan for Medr