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A field guide to mergers in higher education
Richard Mills and Edward Briggs have supported mergers across higher education and beyond. Here's what they've learned about what makes them work – and what makes them fall apart
If Scotland’s university funding problem is systemic, the response must be too
There’s nine more pieces for the Quality Code
The voter consensus forming around Burnham’s education agenda has little time for universities
Whose degree is it anyway?
The mental health taskforce has no budget
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- Europe and international24 SeptInternational research “cannot be replicated through UK-only activity”
- People and careers24 SeptThe Research Professional Futures project
- The research system23 SeptCaSE sets out four actions for a thriving future research system
- The research system23 SeptPublic support for research funding falls when AI is involved, study finds
- Innovation and industry23 SeptUniversities UK and Elsevier map citations in industrial strategy areas
- Essay22 SeptResearch security, science diplomacy, and geopolitical fracture
Conversations about academic authorship need to be transparent
Before we ask students to belong, we should ask where
Why has the OfS downgraded graduate outcomes?
It turns out the English higher education market is pretty strange
Why international recruitment keeps chasing the wrong markets
Counting the cost of teaching higher education in England
Podcast: Loans, Free speech
Podcast: Future jobs, uni closures
Podcast: Burnham, SUs, Year ahead
Podcast: The end of the year show
The Post-18 Project: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student
The Post-18 Project: No country for young men
The Post-18 Project: The silence of the loans
The Post-18 Project: A ministry for Manchesterism
The Post-18 Project: Demographic downturn and the post-18 system
The Post-18 Project: Blood, debt, toil, and arrears
The long read – 12 September
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
Daniel Hook argues that frictionless technologies are teaching us to prefer our own company – and that research leaders should be worried
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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
Student loans are still broken and unfair
The government's reply to the Treasury Committee's inquiry on student loans accepts some wording changes and rejects the rest. Jim Dickinson finds it answering a fairness question with a solvency one
The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t
We’re very sorry, and we won’t do it again
Assessing Scotland’s sector finances
The absolutism is watered down in OfS’ amendments to its free speech guidance
Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?
OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts
Everything you ever wanted to know about TRAC
The NSS shows us that students still seem to like higher education
What can GCSE performance tell us about salaries aged 27?
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