Nick Hillman
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first heard Sep 2024
last heard Sep 2024
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But the funding situation for universities is very challenging at the moment.
And
Every time a minister says there should be more mental health support or universities should take some of the pressure off the NHS or there should be more careers support for undergraduates, you know, it costs money.
And universities genuine.
I know universities always say they don't have enough money.
They always say that, even when they are quite well funded.
But the reality at the moment is they don't have enough money.
Nine thousand two hundred and fifty pounds in twenty twenty four is very, very, very much less than nine thousand pounds was in twenty twelve, which is the the fee for full time undergraduate students in England.
So so we do have to recognise the resource constraints as well.
Well, no, not really.
I d uh just to um say, I mean, I think it is a very, very useful survey to reiterate my comment that I don't think our goal here should be to get all the numbers back to the pre COVID world, but to make continual improvements.
And there is a good, although I don't envy the new incoming government and the challenges they face, there is a good moment for all of us who care about policy in higher education here because there's a new team of ministers.
Who will have a different set of priorities.
The outgoing government, whatever its strengths, were not huge fans of the British university sector and has slightly lost interest even in their own policies in this space and were focusing on other things.
So there is a great opportunity here to recalibrate things.
One thing we haven't touched upon, Jenny, which some of the media coverage of the report focused on, was the proportion of people in your survey who have.
You know, by definition, they've submitted a UCAS form.
They think university is a possibility, who are saying they still might not go.
And I actually think
Most of them probably will go because university is still a life-transforming experience and will set them up very often for life and an interesting professional career.
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