Skip to content
Funding, student loans, NSSmass episode artwork

Jul 10, 2026 31 min

Funding, student loans, NSSmass

from The Higher Education Show

This week on the podcast the government's Strategic Priorities Grant allocation lands with a cash cut of just over £50m – and a much wider list of subjects losing high-cost teaching support, including the creative arts, computing and nursing. Plus two competing views on student loans this week – the House of Commons Treasury Committee concludes the government has, in effect, mis-sold student loans, while the Post-18 Project's John Blake argues the loan book itself is an accounting fiction obstructing reform of university funding in England. And DK has your NSS headlines. With Sarah Cowan, Head of Policy (Higher Education and Research) at the British Academy, Chris Shelley, Director of Student Experience at Queen Mary University of London and James Coe, Associate Editor at Wonkhe, presented by Mark Leach, Editor in Chief at Wonkhe. I’ve stopped believing in Father NSSmas. Here’s why Student loans can no longer be patched up. The system is rotten The NSS shows us that students still seem to like higher education The Silence of the Loans: How student loan book fictions prevent higher education reform The Treasury committee proposes tinkering with student loans

Episode details come from the podcast's RSS feed.

Embed this episode

Ready to play

Funding, student loans, NSSmass

0:00 31:15

No transcript yet.

Requests help us decide what to transcribe next.

Frequently asked questions

How long is this episode of The Higher Education Show?

This episode is 31 minutes long.

When was this The Higher Education Show episode published?

This episode was published on July 10, 2026.

Can I download this The Higher Education Show episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.