Nick Hillman
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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But there's a it seems to be an expectation that this r information is shared very often.
when it simply isn't.
And any applicant or parent or teacher or or advisor listening to this, I would always urge them, as I do when I go into schools, to encourage young people to tell their future university about any needs they have.
And if they're nervous about doing that at the time of the initial UCAS application, which may be when it's best to do,
still do it over the summer, you know, it may be your university can't put the support you need in place.
But at least give them a chance to do so.
And if you haven't told them that you have needs and um priorities, then they at least have a start to be able to try to get some support in place and check in on you once you're there.
Yes, I I get asked all the time what is the new government going to do in relation to higher education.
In fact, I've made a whole speech at the Open University the other day on this.
But it is all guesswork if we're honest.
I mean, the incoming government, you know, it clearly worked for political reasons, didn't have a very well developed higher education plan on coming to office.
And they've appointed a minister in Jackie Smith who is incredibly experienced.
and will really know how to get her Whitehall machine working for her agenda.
But we don't yet now I'm not making any criticism of her.
I mean it would be the same for anybody who's only been in the job for two weeks.
We don't yet know what her agenda is going to be.
And nor do we really know what the agenda of the Office for Students is going to be, because the chair uh resigned immediately after the election.
So we don't have a chair and we haven't yet seen the ministerial letters instructing the Office for Students of the current government's priorities.
But clearly
the government has already tried to send a signal that they want to do everything they can
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