Excellent reminder of the significant role that international students play in UK higher education - internationalising the experience for home students, ensuring many courses are viable to run and the huge financial contribution to the UK as a whole - and this UK Council for International Student Affairs paper…

A tertiary system could present many opportunities for efficiencies, not least the ability to rationalise regulatory processes and data returns across the variety of regulators in the skills space inc The Office for Students (OfS) IfATE Ofsted ESFA as highlighted in @guildhe…

Creating impactful international strategies for small and specialist institutions - looking ahead to my joint session at #IHEF2024 with Bath Spa University's Professor John Strachan and Esther Wilkinson from Royal Agricultural University drawing on research of @guildhe members universitiesuk.ac.uk/node/2046

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Strongly contrasting views on the new DfE letter to the OfS from GuildHE / Iain Mansfield:

Government increases Strategic Priorities Grant by just £2m.

Gordon McKenzie (Gordon McKenzie) of GuildHE says DfE grant letter shows 'disdain for creative education'.

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Today GuildHE responds to the DfE Department for Education letter to OfS The Office for Students (OfS) on how the reduced Strategic Priorities Grant for 2024/25 is to be spent, the disproportionate impact on creative subjects & smaller & specialist institutions. DfE letter ➡️ bit.ly/3TIBCUE

Yesterday's Department for Education announcement of the removal of ITT International Relocation Payments for students - mid-application cycle - is really worrying given the critical state of teacher recruitment as we highlighted in our recent blog wonkhe.com/blogs/a-manife… via @wonkhe

ICYMI Insights on supporting inclusive university boards and the importance of taking a holistic approach from Kim Ansell based on joint work with Advance HE jointly led by Tesse Akpeki that @guildhe and I were involved with advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views…

This week on Wonkhe: The teacher training outlook in England is showing no signs of improvement. Jackie Dunne and Alex Bols make the case for universities’ role in putting things right Jackie Dunne Alex Bols wonkhe.com/blogs/a-manife…

Fun @guildhe team building at the RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) escape room - fear not we managed to escape with 5 mins to spare 😅

Teacher recruitment is in crisis. Universities play a central role in tackling this, delivering teacher education at scale, taking pressure off schools and grounding teacher education in evidence. I've blogged for Wonkhe with Jackie Dunne Birmingham Newman University ▶️wonkhe.com/blogs/a-manife…

Really important piece on teacher training & education from Alex Bols & Jackie Dunne which concerns me from a higher education perspective, as a school governor, but also for the next generation as schools struggle to recruit the teachers they need: wonkhe.com/blogs/a-manife…

Today’s report from National Foundation for Educational Research outlines the scale of teacher recruitment/retention challenges. @AlexBols Deputy CEO GuildHE & Jackie Dunne VC Birmingham Newman University publish a Wonkhe blog ‘Tackling the shortage of teachers in schools: the role of universities’. Read ➡️ bit.ly/3TFihoq

Looking forward to speaking about free speech and what the new regulatory landscape will mean in England at the @wfpeventsevent westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/agenda/Free-Sp… I will be further elaborating on my recent blog for GuildHE guildhe.ac.uk/guildhe-respon…

Looking forward to speaking at #IHEF2024 run by Universities UK International 1-2 May speaking alongside Prof John Strachan from Bath Spa University and Esther Wilkinson from Royal Agricultural University - our session is on Creating impactful international strategies for small and specialist institutions youtube.com/watch?v=iFV_Em…

Fascinating discussion at Uniac briefing on key issues coming out of uni risk registers with top risks including cyber security, student outcomes and student recruitment but following mitigation it’s external factors such as Govt policy & environmental sustainability

Helpful advice for young people thinking about their future career: What do you enjoy, what are you good at, what can you be paid for and what does the world need? Ideally finding something that hits all of these #digifest #digifest 24

🚨 #IHEF2024 is spotlighting smaller and specialist institutions in international HE.

@Alexbols will discuss the unique challenges facing smaller institutions in crafting international strategies, and share GuildHE survey findings on this topic.

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Challenging view of how employees view work, especially if they’re going to be work much longer and so not just doing a job you enjoy but also working more flexibly in a wide range of jobs - many of which don’t exist yet #digifest #Digifest24