In different ways across the UK there have been efforts to make post-18 skills and education provision more coherent, more aligned, and more legible to the students and employers who benefit from it, from funding, to quality, to curricula. But while nobody objects to collaboration and partnership work in principle, the reality can be much messier and involve more compromise than some might see as desirable. Our panel will interrogate the principles of “tertiary” education provision and the practicalities of what is needed to make it work.

There’s a new government, with a new, mission-led policy agenda for higher education in Westminster centred on opportunity and economic growth. How can higher education navigate its way through funding challenges and regulatory reform while also working in partnership with the new government to deliver its national missions?

We’d love you to join the Wonkhe and University of London teams at The Marquis Cornwallis pub in Bloomsbury for drinks (on us), proper food, more entertainment and special guests till late.

We’ll also be celebrating 10 years of Wonkhe.

Food will be available from 7.30pm
Find it on Google Maps (a 5-10 minute walk from Senate House)

Join us for some drinks and refreshments in Crush Hall

Aficionados will be avid listeners to My Imaginary University – the podcast where University of Nottingham registrar Paul Greatrix challenges his guests to describe their ideal university.