Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 14/08/2026'Tis the season for absolutely shameless university marketing comms 122
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 06/01/2026We are hiring for a range of roles in education and skills, from graduate entry level up to middle manager. Fun, dynamic team, cutting edge research, and a chance to shape and lead the policy agenda. Plus, free diet coke in the office. What's not to like. Please share! shgh.teamtailor.com/jobsshgh.teamtailor.comJobs list - SHGH GroupJob openings at SHGH Group 000
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I am once again venturing to Liverpool for Labour Party Conference - if you will also be in the North West for the foreseeable and would like to catch up, let me know! 000
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Some great shout outs here for @wjyates72.bsky.social's work on the student experience earlier in the year - and an important update from the HEPI team on just how far students are having to make their money stretch! 010
Reposted by Jess ListerJonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social · 24/06/2025This is what the sector should be worried about. Not just that it’s a half formed idea with no real clue on elasticity of demand, but that - like the apprenticeship levy - a decent chunk of it gets hoovered up and spent elsewhere by the man from the ministry 111
Reposted by Jess ListerChris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Interesting @upp-foundation.bsky.social study using focus groups to find out why young people in one HE 'cold spot' - Doncaster - are reluctant to consider university as a post-18 option www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...timeshighereducation.comUniversity looks like ‘bad bet’ to teenagers in ‘cold spots’Doncaster focus groups find widespread scepticism that cost of a degree will be outweighed by career benefits 002
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 22/05/2025New report today answering the question: why do so few young people in Doncaster go to university? upp-foundation.org/new-research...upp-foundation.orgNew research shows that residents of higher education ‘cold spots’ remain put off by the cost of going to university - UPP FoundationThe cost of higher education is seen as having a poor payoff in areas with few graduate jobs, and universities, colleges and schools are not doing enough to persuade young people from cold spots to in... 000
Reposted by Jess ListerChris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 09/05/2025“There is political risk in not doing anything about net migration, but also in damaging local economies,” says @jesslister.bsky.social. “International students can feel like low hanging fruit, but the economic consequences of that could be a lot deeper.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student...timeshighereducation.comStudent visa crackdown won’t bring political victory, Labour toldUniversities mount fightback against further restrictions on international students, emphasising their role in growing the economy and lack of public support for new measures 035
Reposted by Jess ListerStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Impossible to improve on this piece on what the UK should, and shouldn't do, on international students by @timleunig.bsky.social:timleunig.substack.comInternational university studentsLet’s not shoot ourselves in the foot again. 33923
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 05/05/2025New analysis from Public First in the Observer this weekend ahead of another round of rows between DfE and Home Office about international students. International education is the single largest export industry in 26 constituencies, and top three in 102.... 012
Reposted by Jess ListerWill Yates @wjyates72.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Some really cool new polling insights into geographical and Ofsted-rating discrepancies in teachers' expectations of school leavers. Read all about it and more in our new 'WP state of the nation' piece with the UPP Foundation: upp-foundation.org/wp-content/u... 002
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 17/02/2025New polling from us puts universities at the bottom of the education priority list ahead of the spending review 075
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Over the summer we talked a lot about how the system (particularly the OfS and to a lesser extent the DfE) didn't have capacity to deal with multiple provider failures occurring simultaneously... 010
