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Jun 12, 2025 42 min

Spending review, Tooling Up, REF, students at work

from The Higher Education Show

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 higher 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, Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe, 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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