I am once again venturing to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference - if you will also be in the North West for the foreseeable and would like to catch up, let me know!

Some great shout outs here for @wjyates72.bsky.social's work on the student experience earlier in the year - and an important update from the HEPI team on just how far students are having to make their money stretch!

This is what the sector should be worried about. Not just that it’s a half formed idea with no real clue on elasticity of demand, but that - like the apprenticeship levy - a decent chunk of it gets hoovered up and spent elsewhere by the man from the ministry

Interesting @upp-foundation.bsky.social study using focus groups to find out why young people in one HE 'cold spot' - Doncaster - are reluctant to consider university as a post-18 option www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

New report today answering the question: why do so few young people in Doncaster go to university? upp-foundation.org/new-research...

“There is political risk in not doing anything about net migration, but also in damaging local economies,” says @jesslister.bsky.social. “International students can feel like low hanging fruit, but the economic consequences of that could be a lot deeper.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...

Impossible to improve on this piece on what the UK should, and shouldn't do, on international students by @timleunig.bsky.social:

New analysis from Public First in the Observer this weekend ahead of another round of rows between DfE and Home Office about international students. International education is the single largest export industry in 26 constituencies, and top three in 102....

Some really cool new polling insights into geographical and Ofsted-rating discrepancies in teachers' expectations of school leavers. Read all about it and more in our new 'WP state of the nation' piece with the UPP Foundation: upp-foundation.org/wp-content/u...

New polling from us puts universities at the bottom of the education priority list ahead of the spending review

Over the summer we talked a lot about how the system (particularly the OfS and to a lesser extent the DfE) didn't have capacity to deal with multiple provider failures occurring simultaneously...