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Making Sense of Higher Education – the literature review
Team Wonkhe dives into the books, resources and ideas that have helped us make sense of higher education in our own ways
Research security, science diplomacy, and geopolitical fracture
The Post-18 Project: Happily HEVA after
Mission impossible?
The voter consensus forming around Burnham’s education agenda has little time for universities
Whose degree is it anyway?
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- Funders and funding27 SeptDoes Britain need its own Nobel Prize?
- Government and politics26 SeptUK “growth survey” finds support for increased public spending on R&D
- Innovation and industry25 SeptThe Russell Group makes recommendations on mayors and innovation funding
- 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
Students are working more than ever. Or are they?
Lessons in collaboration from Singapore
Higher education postcard: Old Joe
A field guide to mergers in higher education
If Scotland’s university funding problem is systemic, the response must be too
There’s nine more pieces for the Quality Code
Podcast: Loans, Free speech
Podcast: Future jobs, uni closures
Podcast: Burnham, SUs, Year ahead
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
Daniel Hook
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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
The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn’t
Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration
Counting the cost of teaching higher education in England
Student loans are still broken and unfair
We’re very sorry, and we won’t do it again
Assessing Scotland’s sector finances
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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