This week on the podcast the Westminster government has announced a fee increase - but will it be enough, and can universities even impose it? Plus the government is on a “renewed drive for efficiency” in universities, and we consider the implications of the results of the US Election. With Brooke Storer-Church, Chief Executive Officer at GuildHE, Johnny Rich, Chief Executive at the Engineering Professors’​ Council and Push, Mike Ratcliffe, Academic Registrar at City St George’s University of London, Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief at Wonkhe. Bridget Phillipson increases fees by 3.1 per centAn increase in maintenance loans gets blunted by fiscal dragFees are going up to £9,535. Or are they?Seizing the current policy moment – from cost-savings to radical efficiencyCollaboration is already baked in to the sector, and we need to see more of itDeeper collaboration key to securing the future of UK higher education Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.