The Office for Students (OfS) has published the minutes for the October 2022 meeting of its student panel<\/a>, a session which included discussion of changes to the NSS, OfS\u2019 forthcoming prevalence survey into sexual misconduct within higher education institutions, and the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n OfS has also launched The National Student Survey (NSS) 2023<\/a>, which is now live for final year undergraduate students to report on their university experience.<\/p>\n The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) has published a self-assessment report<\/a> in advance of a European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) quinquennial review.<\/p>\n New undergraduate recruitment fell by up to a quarter<\/a> at some of the UK\u2019s most prestigious universities this autumn, new data show.<\/p>\n UCAS has released provider level<\/a> and equalities<\/a> data for the 2022 End of Cycle, completing the publication of official statistics from the last undergraduate recruitment cycle.<\/p>\n A new British Academy report, Studying SHAPE: 2022<\/a>, is the first in a planned annual series of trend data on uptake of social science and humanities subjects at level 2 and 3 across the UK.<\/p>\n Engineering UK has launched an inquiry into the decline in apprenticeship starts in engineering<\/a>, to be led by peers Jim Knight and David Willetts.<\/p>\n The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published a report<\/a> detailing the experiences faced by graduates entering the workforce during an economic downturn. The Telegraph<\/a> also covers the story.<\/p>\n Discover Uni has worked with UK Interactive Entertainment (Ukie) on the redevelopment of its UK Games Map<\/a>, which will bring students and employers closer together in the video gaming industry.<\/p>\n Students in England this September will receive an increase in maximum maintenance loans of just 2.4 per cent, the Department for Education has announced<\/a>, with the result that students from the poorest families will be around \u00a31,500 worse off than if maintenance levels had kept pace with inflation. Times Higher Education<\/a> also reports.<\/p>\n The Guardian covers news of a rent strike<\/a> in halls of residence at The University of Manchester over the cost of living.<\/p>\n The Times has comments from Universities UK chief executive Vivienne Stern on the climate crisis and the cost of living<\/a>.<\/p>\n The University and College Union (UCU) has claimed<\/a> that Monday\u2019s New JNCHES negotiating meeting did not see the Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA) put an upgraded pay offer on the table for the 2022-23 academic year.<\/p>\n The Universities and Colleges Employers Association has written<\/a> to the five trade unions participating in the 2023-24 pay round. The new pay offer would see a minimum 4 per cent uplift to pay in 2023-24, with those on lower salaries seeing up to a 7 per cent uplift.<\/p>\n This week saw Irene Tracey\u2019s inauguration<\/a> as Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford. In her speech<\/a> at the ceremony she announced a new commission on all aspects of staff pay and conditions. The Times has the interview<\/a>, while the Guardian covers her comments on staffing conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n China\u2019s reversal of its zero-Covid policy<\/a> has brought some optimism for domestic and overseas students, even as the country reels from a huge wave of infections.<\/p>\n Columbia University has hired Hillary Clinton<\/a>, former US senator and secretary of state, as a professor to teach students and lead outreach projects in international and public affairs.<\/p>\nStudent recruitment<\/h2>\n
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