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Getting into university isn’t enough
Antony Moss introduces the Higher Education Value Index, and makes the case that the sector needs to move from widening access to widening success

If universities aren’t a priority, at least give them certainty

Making Sense of Higher Education – the literature review
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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- Innovation and industry28 SeptMission-oriented industrial strategy in the Burnham era
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- Government and politics27 SeptJonathan Reynolds: we will be relentlessly pro-technology
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- 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”

Research security, science diplomacy, and geopolitical fracture

The Post-18 Project: Happily HEVA after

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

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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