This week on the podcast we discuss the scale and shape of cuts across UK higher education, as new survey findings from Universities UK suggest institutions are considering mergers, groups, hiring freezes, redundancies, campus closures, and reductions in student support as financial pressures deepen.

Plus we discuss the latest international recruitment data, and we consider new Wonkhe research on belonging, friendship and student experience, asking whether universities are designing the structural conditions students need to form meaningful academic and social connections.

With Emma Maslin, Senior Policy and Research Officer at AMOSSHE, Neil Mackenzie, Chief Executive at Leeds Beckett SU, James Coe, Associate Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.

The international student boom is over – and the bust is being delivered by stealth

Friends, it turns out, have benefits

Are universities supporting students too much?

Managing immigration compliance risk through large deposits is immoral and probably unlawful

UUK: Two in five universities consider joining forces through 'multi academy trust' style models or mergers, new survey shows