Patrick Jack

London

Data Journalist at Times Higher Education (THE)

Data journalist @timeshighered - formerly @radar_aiuk/@pa and @MENnewsdesk. 🍀 https://t.co/Kb19huO4YS

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Articles

Graduate employment gap at record level in under-fire statistics

2 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The gap in the employment rate between graduates and those who did not attend university has never been greater, new figures suggest. However, the Department for Education (DfE) has announced the latest release of graduate labour market data will be the last amid ongoing questions over whether it accurately represents graduate outcomes. show that 87.6 per cent of 16-to 64-year-old graduates were employed in 2024, which was unchanged from the year before and slightly below the peak year of 2018.
Universities lucky to avoid UK graduate visa ‘red card’, says v-c

3 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

UK universities were lucky to only receive a “yellow card” in the government’s recent immigration White Paper and should be careful to avoid activities that may prompt further restrictions, a leading vice-chancellor has warned. The long-awaited policy document, published last month, proposed reducing the country’s vital post-study work visa from two years to 18 months, prompting fears of further damage to the sector’s finances.
Russian students ‘told not to consider UK’ amid ‘hostile climate’

4 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The UK’s hostile atmosphere, visa refusal rates and unwavering support for Ukraine almost amounts to a de facto ban on Russian students, scholars have said, after numbers tumbled to record low levels. Recent Home Office figures show that just 1,275 Russian applicants were granted sponsored study-related visas in the year to March 2025 – 20 per cent less than the year before and the lowest number since comparable records began in 2010.
Graduate divide among UK voters adds to Tory ‘extinction’ threat

4 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The educational divide between graduate voters and the rest of the UK could “kill off” the Conservative Party in the coming years, according to a leading political scientist – but may also cause issues for Labour. Historically the party of the working-class, the Labour Party has increasingly become the home of those who attended university, especially since the country voted to leave the European Union in 2016.
Every place with more than 80,000 people ‘needs a university’

5 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

Every town or city in the UK with a population of more than 80,000 people should have its own university to help spur growth and innovation, according to a new book that aims to provide the Labour government with a “road map” for addressing inequalities.
Huge hike in endowment tax ‘harder to fight than student bans’

6 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

A new tax on endowment earnings is intended to inflict “pain” on elite US universities and may be harder to fight than other policies being pursued by the Trump regime, according to experts. With attention focused on international student bans and cuts to federal funding, Republican lawmakers in the House of Representatives succeeded in narrowly passing a tax and spending bill last week, opening up a new battleline against a higher education sector that faces threats on various fronts.
Will Mark Carney drop Canada’s international student caps?

6 days ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The David Cameron-Nick Clegg coalition’s English tuition fee increases in 2010. John Howard’s regulation of Australian university fees in 1996. Even Donald Trump’s antisemitism investigations of Ivy League schools. Examples abound of University of Michigan political scientist John Kingdon’s “policy window” theory playing out in the real world – that certain conditions, such as an election win, create ideal opportunities for often unpopular political decisions.
US international students ‘vulnerable for years’ if social media visa vetting plan enacted

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The Trump administration’s “unprecedented” proposal to vet all international students’ social media could “backfire”, according to scholars – by both damaging the US’ global appeal and emboldening the pro-Palestinian movement it aims to quash. All student visa interviews have been paused as the White House prepares to begin “expanded social media vetting” and screening for all prospective applicants, according to a state department cable.
Student support to become ‘primary focus’ amid AI rise, says OfS’ Edward Peck

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

Supporting students in their professional and personal development will become a “primary focus” of higher education in the years ahead as artificial intelligence changes the university model, according to the next chair of England’s higher education regulator. Edward Peck, who is stepping down as vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University this summer to become chair of the Office for Students, said activities once seen as “extracurricular” are likely to become “core aspects” of a degree.
Half of international students put off by shorter graduate visa

1 week ago | timeshighereducation.com | Patrick Jack

The majority of international students are less likely to want to study in the UK after the government announced plans to restrict the graduate route, a new survey suggests. Universities have warned that reducing the post-study work visa from two years to 18 months would harm the sector’s ability to attract overseas students and further hurt finances.