# Universities are at crisis point

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Podcast: [The EI Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ei-podcast-916386)
Published: 2026-04-23T09:22:01+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8894483
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## Resource

Daisy Christodoulou and Nicholas Wright join EI’s Paul Lay to discuss the crisis in British universities and how to fix it. Image: Sightseers outside the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Credit: Alamy

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