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Podcast: Spending review, Tooling Up, REF, students at work

This week on the podcast we examine the government’s spending review and what it means for higher education.

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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 we examine the government's spending review and what it means for higher education. How will the £86bn R&D commitment translate into real-terms funding, and why was education notably absent from the Chancellor's priorities?

Plus we discuss the Post-18 Project's call to fundamentally reshape HE policy away from market competition, the startling new REF rules, and the striking rise in student term-time working revealed by the latest Student Academic Experience Survey.

With Stephanie Harris, Director of Policy at Universities UK, Ben Vulliamy, Executive Director at the Association of Heads of University Administration, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe, and presented by Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief at Wonkhe.

Tooling up: Building a new economic mission for higher education

Investing for the long term often loses out to pensioner power

What’s in the spending review for higher education

The student experience is beyond breaking point

How to assess anxious, time-poor students in a mass age

REF is about institutions not individuals

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