Tom Williams is deputy news editor. He joined Times 黑料吃瓜网 in March 2022?as a reporter covering teaching and employment issues. He was previously a news reporter at Metro.co.uk and worked as a journalist for the Oxford Mail and BBC Radio Oxford. Tom holds a BA in politics from the University of Nottingham and an MA in journalism and media studies from the University of Sussex.?
Ministers urged to resist policies that will ‘massively overcorrect’ student numbers as key migration statistics unlikely to reflect reality of institutions’ declining enrolments
Education secretary uses Education World Forum speech to praise benefits overseas students bring as government considers making changes to the graduate visa
OfS says hopes that English university finances will recover in next few years appear optimistic, as they are based on forecasts that are too ambitious
Brian Bell tells reporters that scrapping visa would only have a modest effect on immigration numbers anyway, given large impact of changes already introduced
Study establishes minimum income needed for students to have acceptable standard of living is ?366 a week, much more than is provided in government support
Even a favourable MAC report may not relieve political pressure on government to act further on international student numbers, risking ‘enormous damage right across the sector’
Prime minister summons sector leaders to Downing Street as campus protests spread, demanding disciplinary action against students found to be inciting hatred
Institutions where hundreds of roles are at risk will have to radically change the way they operate, staff warn, with big impact on students and the wider community
Radical restructuring of higher education would see lower-tariff institutions focus only on vocational courses, under plans outlined by right-wing thinktank
Number of institutions making redundancies passes 50, reflecting scale of financial challenge facing sector, but even some senior leaders fear rush into irreversible changes will do long-term harm
