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Podcast: Reshuffle, industrial action, applications decline

This week on the podcast Rishi Sunak has been reshuffling his team of ministers – what could the impacts be for higher education?

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Podcasts|28/10/22
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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 Rishi Sunak has been reshuffling his team of ministers - what could the impacts be for higher education?

Plus we have the results of UCU's ballot on industrial action, applications appear to be in decline and students seem to have been forgotten about in the cost of living crisis - again.

With Carole-Anne Upton, Deputy Vice Chancellor at Middlesex University, David Kernohan, Acting Editor at Wonkhe, Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar and sector historian, and presented by Mark Leach, Editor in Chief at Wonkhe.

Featured on the show this week

  • Who is Gillian Keegan?
  • Who is Grant Shapps?
  • Braverman returns – so what happens now to international recruitment?
  • Some good news – and some astonishingly bad news – for students.
  • Staff at 150 higher education providers could take industrial action.
  • October deadline applications are down for 2023.

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