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Apr 23, 2026 50 min

System issues, research bidding, governance

from The Higher Education Show

This week on the podcast John Blake, Director at the Post-18 Project has published his first paper arguing that English higher education's crisis stems from thirty years of policy failure – and that the only real fix is a major, multi-year review to establish a new concordat between the state, the sector and students about who is responsible for what, and how disputes get resolved. Plus, new research from King's College London finds that the cost of applying for research grants amounts to thirteen per cent of the value of awards, and the Committee of University Chairs puts a near-final draft of its new governance code out for comment, with more explicit requirements for what boards must and should do. With Sam Roseveare, Director of Regional and National Policy at the University of Warwick, James Coe, Associate Editor at Wonkhe, Jen Summerton, Operations Director at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe. Blood, debt, toil, and arrears: why thirty years of policy struggle has left us without the higher education system we deserve Expensive, time consuming, and unpopular – why is it so hard to end grant funding peer review? Do the silent middle get to belong in higher education? CUC Code of Governance – Draft for Public Comment

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