Looks like the Govt. has decided the first step to solving the crisis in Higher Education is (after an 8yr freeze) to put up fees in line with the retail price index in Sept. 2025.

While this may offer some (but by no means enough) financial relief to universities, really it just leaves the same broken model in place & merely puts off a proper reconsideration of how we pay for post-18 university education.

At some point something will need to be significantly changed!

#universities
h/t FT

It will be no news to anyone that universities are in an ongoing financial crisis, with their main opportunity for cross subsidy - international student fees - also n trouble...

As previously posted the Office for Students seems to be expecting around ten universities to merge or close in the next couple of years & VCs are making the same sort of noises.

The experiment with the marketisation of HE looks to be reaching its end stage

h/t @fkamiah17
#universities

https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/aug/09/english-universities-face-autumn-tipping-point-as-financial-crisis-looms