Podcast: Students and drugs

Universities often take a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to drug use or drug abuse. But there’s not much evidence to show that the fear or threat of being kicked out of uni works.

In this episode of The future of higher education today, we ask: if current drugs policies aren't working, what would?

Episode guests

Hanna Head, PhD student, University of Birmingham and Chair, Universities UK Student Advisory Panel on student drug use

Professor Nic Beech, Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex University

John de Pury, Assistant Director of Policy, Universities UK

Hosted by Kat Starczewski, former Senior Content Producer at Universities UK.

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Transcript

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Podcast: Students and drugs

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