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Here you can read the latest news and views from our Fellows and associates. Many articles are also reprinted in the ISRF Bulletin, the Foundation’s in-house periodical.

The Blog and Bulletin are edited by Baindu Kallon.

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Letting Universities Fail Won’t Solve the Higher Education Funding Crisis

by James Brackley and David Yates

The latest Education Committee report underlines the dire financial realities that UK universities are navigating. While the report proposes solutions, it fails to address a fundamental driver of the current crisis - the marketisation of higher education. James Brackley and David Yates explain further in their contribution to the Dispatches series.

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What Makes Public Engagement So Difficult (and Why It Still Matters)

by Eric Royal Lybeck

Universities often encourage academics to leave their ivory towers to work with local communities. Such work, veiled in risk assessments and reputational management, mask the realities of genuine engagement. In this contribution to our Dispatches series, Eric Lybeck argues for the slow, frustrating and uneven practice of meaningful civic engagement.

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Bulletin #33: Counterpoints: Power and Its Discontents

Based on research presented at the ISRF’s fifth Congress in June 2025, the contributions unravel dominant discourses to offer more nuanced understanding of contemporary social, political, and cultural issues.

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