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The Post-18 Project: Happily HEVA after
Antony Moss outlines a new index that shows some universities are closing gaps between poorer and privileged students – but most of the data is hidden

Students are working more than ever. Or are they?

Lessons in collaboration from Singapore
Mission impossible?
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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- Innovation and industry25 SeptThe Russell Group makes recommendations on mayors and innovation funding
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- 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

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

Conversations about academic authorship need to be transparent

Before we ask students to belong, we should ask where

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
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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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