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Podcast: New Parliament, NSSmas, academic support

This week on the podcast the new government is shaping up – we check if it’s ship shape

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Podcasts|12/07/24
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Team Wonkhe
News, analysis and explanation of higher education issues from our leading team of wonks

This week on the podcast the new government is shaping up - we check if it’s ship shape.

Plus it's been NSSmass so we’ll work out the impact, and we’ve got new research on academic support.

With Jess Lister, Associate Director (Education) at Public First, Alex Favier, Founder and Director at Favier Ltd,  David Kernohan, Deputy Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.

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  • What can the NSS can tell us about staff pay?
  • National Student Survey 2024
  • Who is Jacqui Smith?
  • Listening to what students say in the national student survey
  • What academics want from academic support
  • Once you can describe an academic support system, you can begin to evaluate it
  • How universities are thinking about academic support
  • Five free(ish) things Labour could do on R&D
  • Thirty seven things Labour should do now to make things better for students
  • A look at Labour’s in-tray for higher education
  • The unofficial reintroduction to Patrick Vallance
  • The Kerslake Collection looks forward to a refreshed civic agenda for universities

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