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Four experts from different disciplines will provide their overview of why (or if) UK higher education is in a period crisis and what needs to change.

The term 'crisis' is regularly applied to higher education, but the current situation appears to merit the term given that over 80 UK universities are currently reducing (or have recently) reduced their staff numbers significantly. There are a number of well-publicised factors contributing to this, including static domestic student fees competing with inflation, and falling - particularly international - student numbers. Additionally, ongoing industrial action by staff over the past decade, as well as other warning signs on social inequality across access, completion, and outcomes, suggest that the issues are not only external.

In this public seminar, four expert academics will provide their analysis of why we are in this hole, and how we might get out of it.