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Future student numbers: The right diagnosis, but careful on the medicine – John Cope responds to the new HEPI paper by Bahram Bekhradnia

HEPI

Based on UCAS data (partial in places, especially when it comes to further education and apprenticeships), robust modelling and some careful assumptions around participation rates, we put our necks on the line and projected by 2030, UCAS would be processing a million applications, compared to around 750,000 currently.

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Interest rate changes could challenge universities, student loans and post 16 and vocational education

SRHE

If there is another 0.25% increase in the base rate, as is widely anticipated, this will place government and university finances under further pressure over the next few years with significant negative implications for HE students, the UK Government’s education budget in general and the further education college budget in particular.