Mehwaesh
@mehwaesh.bsky.social
Work in research policy. Views are my own.
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📢Today we are launching the search for the new Chair of our Board.
This high-profile individual will steer CaSE’s evolution as the UK’s leading independent voice for R&D, at a time of great change and opportunity for the charity.
This high-profile individual will steer CaSE’s evolution as the UK’s leading independent voice for R&D, at a time of great change and opportunity for the charity.
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
📢Today we are launching the search for the new Chair of our Board.
This high-profile individual will steer CaSE’s evolution as the UK’s leading independent voice for R&D, at a time of great change and opportunity for the charity.
This high-profile individual will steer CaSE’s evolution as the UK’s leading independent voice for R&D, at a time of great change and opportunity for the charity.
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This should be really good. 3rd Dec.
EVENT | Dame Tamara Finkelstein DCB: in conversation
Join @schoolforgovt.bsky.social, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and us to hear from one of the UK’s most experienced former civil servants, as she reflects on policymaking in an age of uncertainty
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dame...
Join @schoolforgovt.bsky.social, @michael-sanders.bsky.social and us to hear from one of the UK’s most experienced former civil servants, as she reflects on policymaking in an age of uncertainty
➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dame...
November 16, 2025 at 11:06 AM
This should be really good. 3rd Dec.
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The levy on foreign students is an export tax. Has anyone in government wondered why countries don't usually impose export taxes?
A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Levy on international students’ tuition fees not in best interest of UK, says leader of top university
Duncan Ivison, president of Manchester University, says government’s 6% surcharge plan will ‘hurt the sector’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The levy on foreign students is an export tax. Has anyone in government wondered why countries don't usually impose export taxes?
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FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
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This piece from the Weekend FT seems relevant
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‘When Adam Smith wrote “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner but from their regard to their own interest,” he omitted any discussion of the unpaid work of his mother (& later his sister) that went into cooking his dinner.’ on.ft.com/4olyOut
What we still get wrong about women’s role in global economics
From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction
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November 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This piece from the Weekend FT seems relevant
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The TRAC methodology is not providing the detailed insights that could help support better decision-making, says a new report from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social : www.kcl.ac.uk/news/univers...
University costing data must be better used to tackle financial crisis, report says | King's College London
The TRAC methodology is not providing the detailed insights that could help support better decision-making
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The TRAC methodology is not providing the detailed insights that could help support better decision-making, says a new report from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social : www.kcl.ac.uk/news/univers...
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What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer
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November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
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📢 Together with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), we’ve urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rethink the idea of the proposed international student levy.
Read more: loom.ly/VCyzGDg
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Read more: loom.ly/VCyzGDg
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Tax on international students would be crippling, universities say
The Confederation of British Industry and Universities UK warn plans for a 6% levy will also affect the wider economy
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October 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📢 Together with the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), we’ve urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves to rethink the idea of the proposed international student levy.
Read more: loom.ly/VCyzGDg
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Read more: loom.ly/VCyzGDg
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The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5m grant from the National Science Foundation as it came with a restriction that they would not operate any programs (at all - not just funded by the grant) that promote diversity, equality or inclusion…
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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
In January 2025, the PSF submitted a proposal to the US government National Science Foundation under the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Op...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Python Software Foundation has turned down a $1.5m grant from the National Science Foundation as it came with a restriction that they would not operate any programs (at all - not just funded by the grant) that promote diversity, equality or inclusion…
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Asked about the most important roles of universities, their wider national (and international) contributions are the top: training professionals and researching new medicines are main reasons, followed by the benefits they provide to students.
October 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Asked about the most important roles of universities, their wider national (and international) contributions are the top: training professionals and researching new medicines are main reasons, followed by the benefits they provide to students.
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AMRC members 📢 The Aisling Burnand Award 2025 is now open for submissions! Submit your best examples of joint working, to win a trophy, £150 for training or equipment, and £50 worth of food/drink to celebrate your win. Find out more ⬇️
bit.ly/3JlugoT
bit.ly/3JlugoT
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
AMRC members 📢 The Aisling Burnand Award 2025 is now open for submissions! Submit your best examples of joint working, to win a trophy, £150 for training or equipment, and £50 worth of food/drink to celebrate your win. Find out more ⬇️
bit.ly/3JlugoT
bit.ly/3JlugoT
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This is the best article that Caitlin Moran has ever written. @stianwestlake.bsky.social estlake will particularly appreciate it. www.thetimes.com/article/09da...
I never went to university but I’d love to do a mad PhD
‘I always thought students spent three years getting stoned, lying that they were into jazz — then got their parents’ mates to give them a job’
www.thetimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This is the best article that Caitlin Moran has ever written. @stianwestlake.bsky.social estlake will particularly appreciate it. www.thetimes.com/article/09da...
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£10bn over a decade is a huge sum by any standard - half the UK's entire annual public R&D budget...at one (new) institute
Oxford uni had a research income of £778.9m in 23/24. Not directly comparable, but shows what scale the Ellison is aiming for
Oxford uni had a research income of £778.9m in 23/24. Not directly comparable, but shows what scale the Ellison is aiming for
Ellison Institute to spend £10bn on ‘talent and science’
Billionaire’s Oxford-based institute announces 10-year plan, as government unveils £500 million Oxford-Cambridge corridor investment
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...
Billionaire’s Oxford-based institute announces 10-year plan, as government unveils £500 million Oxford-Cambridge corridor investment
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-i...
Ellison Institute to spend £10bn on ‘talent and science’ - Research Professional News
Billionaire’s Oxford-based institute announces 10-year plan, as government unveils £500 million Oxford-Cambridge corridor investment
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
£10bn over a decade is a huge sum by any standard - half the UK's entire annual public R&D budget...at one (new) institute
Oxford uni had a research income of £778.9m in 23/24. Not directly comparable, but shows what scale the Ellison is aiming for
Oxford uni had a research income of £778.9m in 23/24. Not directly comparable, but shows what scale the Ellison is aiming for
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Levy would undermine inflation boost to tuition fees, MPs told
Taxing international student fees would “waste” efforts to “stop boiling the frog”, says UUK head
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Taxing international student fees would “waste” efforts to “stop boiling the frog”, says UUK head
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Levy would undermine inflation boost to tuition fees, MPs told - Research Professional News
Taxing international student fees would “waste” efforts to “stop boiling the frog”, says UUK head
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Levy would undermine inflation boost to tuition fees, MPs told
Taxing international student fees would “waste” efforts to “stop boiling the frog”, says UUK head
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Taxing international student fees would “waste” efforts to “stop boiling the frog”, says UUK head
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Quite a coup for Zurich, a dark sign for America, and perhaps a missed opportunity for the UK.
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Quite a coup for Zurich, a dark sign for America, and perhaps a missed opportunity for the UK.
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‘analysis of the [graduate] wage premium… by leading… economists determined it was “extraordinarily flat” between the 1990s & 2010s, despite a near tripling in the share of working adults with an undergraduate degree over the period.’
Good piece from @amyborrett.ft.com
on.ft.com/3Kn1ioF
Good piece from @amyborrett.ft.com
on.ft.com/3Kn1ioF
No, the UK has not reached ‘peak graduate’
The salary and non-salary data show degrees still deliver for students in the long run
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September 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
‘analysis of the [graduate] wage premium… by leading… economists determined it was “extraordinarily flat” between the 1990s & 2010s, despite a near tripling in the share of working adults with an undergraduate degree over the period.’
Good piece from @amyborrett.ft.com
on.ft.com/3Kn1ioF
Good piece from @amyborrett.ft.com
on.ft.com/3Kn1ioF
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Connecting further and higher education to create a system that delivers for learners and communities🌟
In a new report, UUK & @aoc-info.bsky.social bring together university and college leaders to work towards a more joined-up tertiary education system.
👇 loom.ly/8Sq1_Gw
In a new report, UUK & @aoc-info.bsky.social bring together university and college leaders to work towards a more joined-up tertiary education system.
👇 loom.ly/8Sq1_Gw
Delivering a joined-up post-16 skills system
The Post-16 Education and Skills white paper presents a unique opportunity to explore how universities and colleges can work together in partnership and within a national system.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Connecting further and higher education to create a system that delivers for learners and communities🌟
In a new report, UUK & @aoc-info.bsky.social bring together university and college leaders to work towards a more joined-up tertiary education system.
👇 loom.ly/8Sq1_Gw
In a new report, UUK & @aoc-info.bsky.social bring together university and college leaders to work towards a more joined-up tertiary education system.
👇 loom.ly/8Sq1_Gw
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This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive
www.theguardian.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
October 8, 2025 at 9:06 AM
If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
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Alongside the @royalsociety.org, @raeng.org.uk, @acmedsci.bsky.social we have opened applications for the latest round of the Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration scheme. Funded by DSIT, the programme supports UK researchers in engaging with Horizon Europe. Learn more: bit.ly/42tplbM
October 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Alongside the @royalsociety.org, @raeng.org.uk, @acmedsci.bsky.social we have opened applications for the latest round of the Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration scheme. Funded by DSIT, the programme supports UK researchers in engaging with Horizon Europe. Learn more: bit.ly/42tplbM
"It also proposes tuition fees be frozen for five years and the share of international undergraduates frozen at 15 per cent as a condition of receiving funding."
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Trump administration demands universities sign up to ‘compact’ in return for funding
Critics say linking funds to adherence to the White House’s principles undermines academic freedom
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October 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"It also proposes tuition fees be frozen for five years and the share of international undergraduates frozen at 15 per cent as a condition of receiving funding."
www.ft.com/content/0173...
www.ft.com/content/0173...
Deloitte Australia will partially refund the federal government after admitting it used AI to help produce a $440,000 report riddled with mistakes, including fake academic citations and false quotes colitco.com/deloitte-ref... A reminder of the risks of relying on AI w/out sufficient human oversight
Deloitte to Refund Government After Admitting AI-Generated Errors in $440K Report - Colitco
Deloitte has agreed to refund the Australian government after revealing major errors in a $440,000 report. The company admitted that artificial intelligence
colitco.com
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Deloitte Australia will partially refund the federal government after admitting it used AI to help produce a $440,000 report riddled with mistakes, including fake academic citations and false quotes colitco.com/deloitte-ref... A reminder of the risks of relying on AI w/out sufficient human oversight
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On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
October 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.
As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.
At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.