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PODCAST: White paper, Wales, PRES, ONS

This week on the podcast we ask if we’re getting an HE white paper for Christmas, and look at polling on the politics of fees, funding and maintenance.

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News, analysis and explanation of higher education issues from our leading team of wonks

This week on the podcast we ask if we’re getting an HE white paper for Christmas, and look at polling on the politics of fees, funding and maintenance.

Plus Wales has a new Bill, and there’s new data on PGRs and undergrads - both of which appear to signal an intractable mental health crisis across the sector. What can be done?

With Osama Khan, PVC Education at the University of Surrey, Debbie Holley, Professor of Learning Innovation at Bournemouth University, David Kernohan, Wonkhe’s Associate Editor, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar at Nottingham Trent, and presented by Jim Dickinson, Wonkhe’s Associate Editor.

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We've been waiting since the trailer came out last July, and now it is finally here. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson get to grips with TER(W).

The Chair of Universities Wales urges Senedd members to focus on the value that the new bill can provide for the future of tertiary education.

Postgraduate Research Experience Survey (PRES) 2021.

Augar response? Fee cuts? Minimum qualifications? It’s all about timing.

Have students been getting the vaccine?

Do a quarter of students have an eating disorder?

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