Two pressures converging on English higher education
A HEPI report warns of a severe financial crisis building into the 2040s from two directions: a falling population of 18-year-olds after the current bulge passes, and recruitment practices that chase numbers at the expense of whether students are suited to the course. For applicants the second matters now — an offer made to fill a place is not the same as an offer made because you will do well on it.
Graduate earnings data is on its way
The Department for Education has scheduled its graduate labour market statistics and its longitudinal earnings outcomes for graduates and postgraduates. These are the figures that decide which courses get called low value, which departments come under review, and what any ranking of universities by salary is built on. They are published by subject and institution, which makes them worth reading directly. Graduate jobs in the UK covers what they do and do not show.
Department for Education, 28 May
Withdrawn acceptances are crushing one market
Pakistani students who saved, gathered documents and paid fees are having their confirmations of acceptance withdrawn as universities retreat from markets they judge risky. It is the human end of the compliance tightening: students lose money and a year through decisions taken about their nationality rather than about them. Being an international student in the UK covers sponsorship.