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Chris Skidmore at UUK, post-study work, Discover Uni

On our first podcast of the season we get the scoop from universities minister Chris Skidmore on his message to vice chancellors at UUK conference, celebrate student immigration changes and review OfS’ replacement for Unistats

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Podcasts|13/09/19
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Team Wonkhe

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

The podcast is back for its autumn season, and we're chatting all the gossip and speeches from Universities UK's annual conference in Birmingham. There's also news on international students, a new unistats from OfS, and the return of Hidden History.

With Wonkhe's own Jim Dickinson (Associate Editor), Debbie McVitty (Editor) and Mark Leach (CEO)

This week's items:

  • Debbie McVitty guides you through the ministerial speeches to the annual Universities UK conference
  • The sector has been very positive about the announcement of a new post-study work visa route - but David Kernohan still wants to see some details.
  • David Kernohan reviews the new Discover Uni site

And here's this weeks correlation - Because it's all Wonkhe staff on the podcast this week I thought we'd get technical. OfS releases a measure of how well paid a head of provider is compared to the rest of their staff as a ratio. What I'm asking is whether there is a link between this and how quickly the provider would run out of money if if stopped getting any - the number of days of net liquidity.

So - do providers that could go under in the blink of an eye pay their VCs and principals loads more than the rest of the staff? Does it correlate?

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