UNL-voorzitter Caspar van den Berg in AD.nl over de enorme bezuinigingen op wetenschap: “Het is een illusie om te denken dat je een miljard op de wetenschap kunt bezuinigen zonder dat je daarmee de innovatiekracht en het verdienvermogen van Nederland schaadt” ad.nl/politiek/unive…

You know I love you, but you ate an ostrich anus during a parliamentary session.

Lots to like in this piece but I’m not sure I accept the need is supporting VC’s to find their voice, rather VC’s helping univeristy staff, academics, students and wider civic communities to use their voice.

Agree strongly with this piece but the challenge is that it means that VCs & universities will need to drop their position of assumed 'institutional neutrality' which, as I argued earlier in the year, is a hypocritical and non sustainable argument. see: wonkhe.com/blogs/universi…

Should universities stay neutral on the big issues of the day and avoid social and political action? linkedin.com/posts/philbaty…

Tough to see big cuts to higher education and research in the Netherlands.

UK universities expected to benefit from Australian caps ‘Unwelcoming’ government policies may see international students turn to other destinations, say education agents bit.ly/479zsng

Data collection for our next Impact Rankings is approaching. Find out about the latest improvements to the methodology, and watch a demo of our new AI product, in one of our free masterclasses this week: timeshighereducation.com/content/impact… #THEGlobalImpact #THEUniRankings

“In an analogy that the proud higher education sector won’t much like,” English universities’ behaviour after the 2012 trebling of tuition fees “was similar to the banks’ reckless expansion in the cheap credit days of the early 2000s.” linkedin.com/posts/philbaty…

Financial benefits of franchising ‘prioritised over quality’ - The Office for Students (OfS) timeshighereducation.com/news/financial… via Times Higher Education

🇦🇺economy rose just 0.2 % in the June quarter, half the growth rate in 2023, and just 1.5 % over the last year (down on 3.0 per cent in 2022-23). Services exports rose 5.6 %, led by education-related travel services. WHY INFLICT FURTHER DAMAGE BY IMPOSING INT. STUDENT CAPS?

.Jacqui Smith: fix for funding crisis “will not happen overnight”. Universities minister acknowledges the “financial peril” faced by UK higher education sector but insists potential remedies will “take time”. Jack Grove reports. Universities UK bit.ly/3XbFS0y

The UK higher education sector contributes an outstanding £265 BILLION to our economy. For every £1 of public money invested, £14 gets put back into the economy. Universities can power the government's growth mission. See more👇 loom.ly/T-7pw68

“Higher education has a vital role to play in achieving this government’s mission for growth.” @PeterKyle sets out his vision Universities UK for harnessing the power of universities to drive discoveries and innovations that could transform lives and drive economic growth.

Stark and harsh: England’s less selective universities have suffered a £1.5 billion hit in their real fee income for their core activity: teaching English full-time undergraduates. linkedin.com/posts/philbaty…

The newest report from UUK and LE Education reveals that higher education has an economic impact of £9.7 billion across the North East. #UniversityImpact Find out more👇 loom.ly/T-7pw68

Some 120 finalists from more than 70 institutions have been shortlisted for the 20th-anniversary edition of the #THEAwards 2024. Find out who is in the running: timeshighereducation.com/news/awards-20…

“I don’t think the [university] sector is too big at the moment. This is the problem. You wouldn’t say that about any other sector…It’s seeped into the narrative in the last decade about higher education.” Peter Kyle is fast becoming the best advocate we have for UK higher ed:

England’s universities need £12,500-a-year tuition fees just to break even, says v-c linkedin.com/posts/philbaty…