Are universities facing a 'financial crisis'?

Existential crisis - at risk of insolvency - looming financial crisis - ticking time bomb -  bankruptcy.

Newspaper headline writers have certainly not been holding back in recent months as they try to describe the predicament that UK universities apparently find themselves in. 

Then again, with a General Election on the way, universities and other higher education (or HE) providers are not going to be the only educational institutions hoping to secure more money from a future government. 

So what do we know about the financial health of the HE sector? Who or what is responsible for the financial pressure that some, if not all, HE providers are experiencing? And who should be responsible for alleviating that pressure in future?  

Our guests today are Professor Jane Harrington, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, and Jess Lister, an Associate Director at the consultancy Public First. 

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