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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 10/10/2026

It won’t even happen. They don’t have enough for their domestic needs. Perhaps a dribble will make it to the US for propaganda purposes but no more. He has exposed himself for nothing. Pitiful.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 24/09/2026

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 19/07/2026

Right. I think the potential for more strategic coordination of HE activity to accelerate regional/sectoral development is quite exciting. I just hope the new admin can see the obvious parallels of “attracting talent to a region/country, educating them and persuading them to stay is good, actually”.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 19/07/2026

But this raises some quite different questions when applied to a national context…

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 08/07/2026

I’m no AI booster but isn’t health (+ medical science broadly) one area with huge potential productivity upsides? Can’t expect Moore’s Law growth but the predictive power of pattern recognition + shift to more preventative care could have profound impact. + new drug patents only last 20 years…

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 05/07/2026

The chance meeting of two strangers in a bar who are both sitting/drinking alone is such a plot staple (cliche) of American movies and TV shows, it can be hard to remember how completely culturally alien that is to Brits. (Occasionally British screenwriters forget and include a similar setup..)

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 24/06/2026

And of course by far the biggest spenders of apprenticeship levy funds on management training and mid career professional development have been…? Yep, the NHS and other public sector organisations.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 24/06/2026

The government doesn’t. It’s Deloitte’s money that the levy is designed to make them ringfence for training. If they don’t spend it all it goes into a general pot. This government actually came in with a policy of letting them spend less on apprentices (mostly new hires) and more on short training.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 23/06/2026

Came here to find your tweet… Right there with you. What a wasted decade. What a wrong turn. Their faces may be well and truly spited, but it turns out noses are quite useful after all.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 17/06/2026

Lovely article on a very special institution we are proud to count as an IHE member, Norland in Bath.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 05/06/2026

Ahhh two Scoobies down 😥 (three if you count Dawn..)

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 31/05/2026

If ever there was a group ripe for proscription..

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 28/05/2026

Sian, you may have it in your diary already but the APPG for International Students is meeting next Wednesday at 3:30pm to hear evidence from the sector and discuss the current situation. Please do come if you can. Contact appg@internationalstudents.org.uk for details.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 13/05/2026

This is amazing, congratulations! I have such respect for your tireless efforts pursuing moral and legal accountability in the online wild west, and the EHRC has a critical role in doing the same within wider society.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 26/02/2026

It’s brilliant, this season especially. The episodes have an almost symphonic quality in how they combine intense emotion, recurrent themes, rapid tonal shifts and a real formal beauty. They use music itself skilfully of course, which is a powerful element. The last episode as a great example..

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 16/02/2026

Cocktails? To think she would combine such different ingredients so recklessly…

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 25/10/2025

Wonderful. Also, was in Leeds this week and similarly struck by its buzz and beauty.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Stephen Bush on the extraordinary draft legislation which Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, Matt Vickers, Katie Lam and backbench colleagues have proposed in parliament It is a proposal that would seek to deport around 5% of the resident population, including over a quarter of a million with ILR

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 22/10/2025

What is immoral is not adjusting immigration policy (and really more importantly, economic and education policy) to reduce numbers coming in or even increasing outflow. It is tearing up an established contract between the state and law-abiding individuals who were told they had permanent residence.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 22/10/2025

It’s horrendous, but also as @sundersays.bsky.social has pointed out it is not just one MP’s immoral aberration, it appears to be official party policy…?

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 22/10/2025

It’s immoral and unfair and un-British and would materially (and rightly) damage our reputation in the world. Honestly what on earth are they thinking?

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 12/10/2025

Well yes. OfS have publicly floated this as a possibility. The hard political and economic reality of implementing such a policy hasn’t become any easier since the last time it was floated and abandoned, however…

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 12/10/2025

I suspect that something has been lost in translation/interpretation en route to this article..

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 23/09/2025

Thank you for the moral clarity and (all too rare) common sense. We must be unafraid of articulating our values if we are to have any hope of defending them.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 14/09/2025

Thank you for saying this. Hopefully many other MPs will speak up too. Parliament needs to present a united front against such a clear threat to our democracy and explicit incitement to racist violence. The vast majority of the country is with you.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 14/09/2025

Thank you for saying this. Parliament needs to present a united front against such a clear threat to our democracy and its explicit incitement to racist violence. Such transparently anti-democratic, anti-British, intolerant, divisive and dangerous forces must be recognised, resisted and condemned.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 14/09/2025

This is absolutely true but those millions want to see the significant and growing threat to the country posed by anti-democratic, intolerant and racist movements (+ their cynical leaders) explicitly recognised, resisted and condemned. Need Government + Parliament as a united front against this now.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 14/09/2025

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 14/09/2025

Thank you for the moral clarity + challenge, Jonathan. At the bare minimum the vast majority of people in UK who reject a politics of violence + hatred can no longer close our eyes and hope the global rising tide of racist grievance + disintermediated lies will not wash up on our shores. It’s here.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Personal note: went to (some) of the countermarch yesterday, and then watched TV coverage of both. @sundersays.bsky.social is right that the far-right/racists on the main march are a (small) minority whose numbers are not growing. It's the apparent paralysis of the majority that scares me. [1/n]

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 14/09/2025

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 19/06/2025

The OfS free speech guidance fails to grasp the diversity + complexity of modern HE provision – comfortable reminiscing on the cut+thrust of debate in an Oxbridge college set; nothing to say on e.g. a professional workplace where students are also staff. Read our response: ihe.ac.uk/latest/news/...

ihe.ac.uk

IHE responds to OfS guidance related to freedom of speech

Read our response to the publication of Regulatory advice 24: Guidance related to freedom of speech.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 19/04/2025

Reminds me of the Chief’s wife in Asterix..

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Sooner or later, one of three things is going to happen. Universities can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are going under. In defence of international students.

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International students can save Britain’s broke universities

They can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are going under.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 09/04/2025

I’m nothing if not reliable.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 09/04/2025

We can at least assume there will be no Mickey Mouse degrees tolerated in the vicinity of this new park, given the fierce competition for intellectual property rights.

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

NEW on Wonkhe: For IHE chief executive Alex Proudfoot, it is time to strengthen all academic partnerships, not just some buff.ly/1kkcj7b

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 05/04/2025

I mean what are factories really if they are not Proletarian Temples to the White Widget God. (Have I got this right?)

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 04/03/2025

Wow! Indonesia? It really is the most incredible place..

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 05/02/2025

I just read the article itself. His full comments seem thoughtful + nuanced, concerned mostly with unequal health outcomes. It’s a defence of effective EDI policies, not a pile-on, let alone amplifying the far right as Mr Maugham has rather abruptly leapt to. Is that really worth a ‘fuck this guy’?

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 30/01/2025

This could be an opportunity for that rarest of consultation response forms, the haiku.

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Alex Proudfoot @alex.ihe.ac.uk · 23/01/2025

Dangerous to E17 natives, especially after a baked potato

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Shane Chowen @ukshane.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Good evening! Coming up in @feweek.bsky.social edition 480: 🚕Council SEND transport cuts trigger safety fears 🛑OfS pause puts in-demand courses in growth sectors on ice 🏎️How to ‘fast-track’ house-building apprenticeships PLUS...

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