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How can open days help applicants?

It turns out that David Kernohan might have been at your open day. He's wondering what applicants make of the whole experience

David Kernohan

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Comment

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28/06/25

Welfare reforms will hit disabled students hard

Hailie Pentleton

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Comment

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27/06/25

DfE sets out the detail on the free speech act

Jim Dickinson

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Policy Watch

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27/06/25

Wonk Corner

Guess how many students will be hit by Welfare reforms. You’ll have to – the government doesn’t know

Jim Dickinson

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27/06/25

Twin rooms, shared bathrooms and communal kitchens – Ireland’s plan for student accommodation

Jim Dickinson

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26/06/25

Disabled students are almost twice as likely to have considered quitting

Jim Dickinson

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25/06/25

Palestine Action will shortly count as terrorism

Jim Dickinson

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23/06/25

Graduates move to get better opportunities. And they don’t come back.

David Kernohan

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23/06/25

The Wonkhe Show

Podcast: Industrial strategy, cashpoint colleges, social mobility

Team Wonkhe

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27/06/25

Podcast: Free speech guidance, R&D

Team Wonkhe

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20/06/25

Podcast: Spending review, Tooling Up, REF, students at work

Team Wonkhe

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13/06/25

Podcast: Efficiency, EDI, speed

Team Wonkhe

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06/06/25

LEO has a role to play in picking winners

David Kernohan

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Data

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27/06/25

Military education committees and universities’ civic role

Katharine Wright

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Comment

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27/06/25

Higher education postcard: University of Bologna

Hugh Jones

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Comment

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27/06/25

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away

Anton Muscatelli

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Comment

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26/06/25

Social mobility needs a whole-university rethink

Paul Blagburn

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Comment

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26/06/25

Reframing student voice through a rights-based lens

Marta Almeida Hill

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Comment

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25/06/25

Moving beyond the quality wars

Richard Harrison

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Comment

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23/06/25

Richard Harrison traces the contours of the OfS era of the quality wars – and asks whether a new settlement is in sight

Moving beyond the quality wars

Richard Harrison traces the contours of the OfS era of the quality wars – and asks whether a new settlement is in sight

Richard Harrison

Comment

23/06/25

Financial sustainability

What we’ll be talking about at The Festival of Higher Education 2025

Debbie McVitty

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Comment

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02/06/25

OfS continues to sound the alarm on the financial sustainability of English higher education

The latest financial sustainability report from OfS finds a worsening sector-wide financial performance but less evidence of over-optimistic future projections. Debbie McVitty breaks down the bad news

Debbie McVitty

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Policy Watch

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08/05/25

Unclear legal duties can leave university trustees exposed when things go wrong

Neil Smyth

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Comment

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17/04/25

OfS insight on institutional closure lacks a firm statutory foundation

Matthew Howling

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Comment

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06/04/25

Breaking out of Bergentown – the case for hope in higher education

Mark Peace

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Comment

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18/03/25

Data on Wonkhe

University spending and cost recovery, 2023–24

David Kernohan

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Data

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11/06/25

The UK’s register of university spin-outs

David Kernohan

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Data

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05/06/25

Plotting the impact of an international fee levy

David Kernohan

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Data

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19/05/25

What the latest HESA data tells us about university finances

David Kernohan

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Data

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09/05/25

HESA has published full student data for 2023–24

David Kernohan

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Data

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04/04/25

Which universities recruit commuter students?

David Kernohan

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Data

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12/03/25

Policy Watch

Higher education and the industrial strategy priority areas

Michael Salmon

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Policy Watch

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24/06/25

Research and innovation in the industrial strategy

David Kernohan

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Policy Watch

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24/06/25

Will guidance on freedom of speech help the staff who fear physical attack for expressing their views?

Ahead of new duties going live on August 1st, the Office for Students has published regulatory guidance on freedom of speech. Jim Dickinson attempts to take it all in

Jim Dickinson

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Policy Watch

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19/06/25

Universities UK’s new era of collaboration

David Kernohan

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Policy Watch

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02/06/25

How can open days help applicants?

It turns out that David Kernohan might have been at your open day. He's wondering what applicants make of the whole experience

Welfare reforms will hit disabled students hard

DfE sets out the detail on the free speech act

Guess how many students will be hit by Welfare reforms. You’ll have to – the government doesn’t know

Twin rooms, shared bathrooms and communal kitchens – Ireland’s plan for student accommodation

Disabled students are almost twice as likely to have considered quitting

Palestine Action will shortly count as terrorism

Graduates move to get better opportunities. And they don’t come back.

Podcast: Industrial strategy, cashpoint colleges, social mobility

Podcast: Free speech guidance, R&D

Podcast: Spending review, Tooling Up, REF, students at work

Podcast: Efficiency, EDI, speed

LEO has a role to play in picking winners

Military education committees and universities’ civic role

Higher education postcard: University of Bologna

The risk of unrepresentative REF returns hasn’t gone away

Social mobility needs a whole-university rethink

Reframing student voice through a rights-based lens

Moving beyond the quality wars

Richard Harrison traces the contours of the OfS era of the quality wars – and asks whether a new settlement is in sight

Moving beyond the quality wars

Richard Harrison traces the contours of the OfS era of the quality wars – and asks whether a new settlement is in sight

What we’ll be talking about at The Festival of Higher Education 2025

OfS continues to sound the alarm on the financial sustainability of English higher education

The latest financial sustainability report from OfS finds a worsening sector-wide financial performance but less evidence of over-optimistic future projections. Debbie McVitty breaks down the bad news

Unclear legal duties can leave university trustees exposed when things go wrong

OfS insight on institutional closure lacks a firm statutory foundation

Breaking out of Bergentown – the case for hope in higher education

University spending and cost recovery, 2023–24

The UK’s register of university spin-outs

Plotting the impact of an international fee levy

What the latest HESA data tells us about university finances

HESA has published full student data for 2023–24

Which universities recruit commuter students?

Higher education and the industrial strategy priority areas

Research and innovation in the industrial strategy

Will guidance on freedom of speech help the staff who fear physical attack for expressing their views?

Ahead of new duties going live on August 1st, the Office for Students has published regulatory guidance on freedom of speech. Jim Dickinson attempts to take it all in

Universities UK’s new era of collaboration

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