Podcast: Skills, King’s speech, international foundation years

This week on our final show before the summer break, Labour is to introduce a Skills England bill - we discuss what might be in it, and everything else that was (and wasn’t) in the King’s speech.

Plus the QAA has published its investigation into international foundation years, and DK has been making music again.

With Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive at Universities UK, Aaron Porter, Chair of the Board at BPP University, Debbie McVitty, Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief at Wonkhe.

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• On King's Speech day, Jim Dickinson was listening to the World at One – as the Secretary of State laid out her stall on fee increases and international students.
• What’s in the King’s Speech for higher education? David Kernohan has a read.
• Students want more flexibility. Here’s some tweaks to deliver it
• There are several compelling reasons why the new government might want to rethink the Lifelong Learning Entitlement. Michael Salmon goes over the politics and the policy
• James Coe and David Kernohan run through what we know and what we can guess about the new post-compulsory arms length body