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Podcast: Loneliness, climate change, LLE, work

This week on the podcast we discuss the government’s plans to reduce the stigma and increase support for students who are lonely.

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Podcasts|22/09/23
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Team Wonkhe

News, analysis and explanation of higher education issues from our leading team of wonks
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  • Freedom of speech
  • lifelong loan entitlement
  • Mental Health
  • sustainability
Team Wonkhe
News, analysis and explanation of higher education issues from our leading team of wonks

This week on the podcast we discuss the government’s plans to reduce the stigma and increase support for students who are lonely.

Plus Gillian Keegan is urging VCs to just stop just stop oil, the Lifelong Loan Entitlement gets a rebrand and HESA’s making measures on meaningful work more meaningful.

With Selena Bolingbroke, Principal at the Building Crafts College, Jonathan Woodhead, Policy Adviser at Birkbeck, University of London, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar at City, University of London and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.

Read more:

  • Gillian Keegan's letter to VCs on Just Stop Oil
  • The Lifelong Learning Entitlement on Wonkhe
  • DCMS is winging it on student loneliness
  • HESA: The value of a non-financial job quality measure in exploring graduate outcomes
  • Whose job is it to help students make friends?

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