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Policy Watch

Everything in the 2026 Budget for higher education and students

Team Wonkhe unpacks John Healey’s first budget as chancellor and what it means for the sector

Team Wonkhe|28/10/26

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Everything in the 2026 Budget for higher education and students

What creative institutions need from the Budget

What creative institutions need from the Budget

Karen Stanton|28/10/26

Publication alone can’t guarantee wider learning from student deaths

Publication alone can’t guarantee wider learning from student deaths

Emma Roberts|28/10/26

Wonk Corner

Chancellors stopped talking about universities once they lost control of them

Jim Dickinson|28/10/26

New International Student Levy assessment is £100m worse than originally shown

James Coe|28/10/26

Jisc explains procuring AI the sensible way

The real collaboration question isn’t what, but why – and how?

The real collaboration question isn’t what, but why – and how?

Debbie McVitty|Comment|24/08/26

On 3 November Wonkhe will host The Collaboration Question in London. Debbie McVitty assesses where the conversation has got to and where it needs to go from here

The real collaboration question isn’t what, but why – and how?

On 3 November Wonkhe will host The Collaboration Question in London. Debbie McVitty assesses where the conversation has got to and where it needs to go from here

Debbie McVitty|Comment|24/08/26

Policy Watch

David Kernohan|27/10/26

OfS must pay full legal costs to Sussex

David Kernohan|26/10/26

Students sweep the populists from power in Serbia

Jim Dickinson|25/10/26

Are there really more graduate NEETs than A-level NEETs

Jim Dickinson|15/10/26

A slightly better outlook for graduate jobs

David Kernohan|14/10/26

AI marking could cost universities their get out of jail free card

Jim Dickinson|13/10/26

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The Post-18 Project: Happily HEVA after

The Post-18 Project: Happily HEVA after

Antony Moss|The Post-18 Project|25/09/26

The Post-18 Project: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student

The Post-18 Project: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student

Gwenno Roberts|The Post-18 Project|10/08/26

The Post-18 Project: No country for young men

The Post-18 Project: No country for young men

David Kernohan|The Post-18 Project|22/07/26

The Post-18 Project: The silence of the loans

The Post-18 Project: The silence of the loans

John Blake|The Post-18 Project|07/07/26

The Post-18 Project: A ministry for Manchesterism

The Post-18 Project: A ministry for Manchesterism

John Blake|The Post-18 Project|29/06/26

The Post-18 Project: Demographic downturn and the post-18 system

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Wales picks benchmarks over bright lines to judge tertiary quality

Wales picks benchmarks over bright lines to judge tertiary quality

As Wales chooses relative benchmarks over England’s absolute thresholds, Jim Dickinson unpacks what Medr’s proposed measures mean for universities and students

Jim Dickinson|Policy Watch|20/10/26

OfS begins second round of consultation on future TEF quality assessments

OfS begins second round of consultation on future TEF quality assessments

Debbie McVitty|Policy Watch|22/10/26

Ministers dodge the question of candour in universities

Ministers dodge the question of candour in universities

Jim Dickinson|Policy Watch|12/10/26

Counting the cost of teaching higher education in England

Counting the cost of teaching higher education in England

David Kernohan|Policy Watch|18/09/26

The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t

The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t

Jim Dickinson|Policy Watch|17/09/26

Data on Wonkhe

Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?

Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?

OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts

David Kernohan|Data|16/09/26

Everything you ever wanted to know about TRAC

Everything you ever wanted to know about TRAC

David Kernohan|Data|18/08/26

A bumper crop of higher education entrants, but is university becoming less popular among the better off?

A bumper crop of higher education entrants, but is university becoming less popular among the better off?

David Kernohan|Data|13/08/26

The NSS shows us that students still seem to like higher education

The NSS shows us that students still seem to like higher education

David Kernohan|Data|09/07/26

What can GCSE performance tell us about salaries aged 27?

What can GCSE performance tell us about salaries aged 27?

David Kernohan|Data|25/06/26

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If Manchesterism is going national, universities need to hold on to public engagement

If Manchesterism is going national, universities need to hold on to public engagement

Sophie Duncan|Comment|27/10/26

Universities cannot restructure their way out of a leadership-readiness crisis

Universities cannot restructure their way out of a leadership-readiness crisis

Daniel Connell|Comment|27/10/26

Students and young graduates were promised support to change our lives – but the government ripped up the rulebook

Students and young graduates were promised support to change our lives – but the government ripped up the rulebook

Sharanya Sivarajah|Comment|27/10/26

A chance to get it right on meeting expectations on disability inclusion

A chance to get it right on meeting expectations on disability inclusion

Mack Marshall|Comment|26/10/26

OfS wants to intervene more strongly on quality. Can it intervene more intelligently?

OfS wants to intervene more strongly on quality. Can it intervene more intelligently?

Janice Kay|Comment|26/10/26

Who would dare to tell the truth about the TEF?

Who would dare to tell the truth about the TEF?

Jim Dickinson|Comment|26/10/26

The Higher Education Show

Podcast: NEETs and skills, research missions

Team Wonkhe|23/10/26

Podcast: Innovation nation, emerging leaders, graduate recruitment

Team Wonkhe|16/10/26

Podcast: Academic integrity and AI, Conservative conference

Team Wonkhe|08/10/26

Podcast: Hope (again), Mi5

The Post-18 Project: Demographic downturn and the post-18 system

David Kernohan|The Post-18 Project|08/06/26

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