Monday 19 October 2026
David Kernohan

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David Kernohan

Deputy Editor

1,579 pieces

Newest first, since February 2011 · page 12 of 79

  1. · Comment

    How can open days help applicants?

    It turns out that David Kernohan might have been at your open day. He’s wondering what applicants make of the whole experience

  2. · Data

    LEO has a role to play in picking winners

    Earnings and graduate destination data isn’t just there for league tables. David Kernohan demonstrates how LEO can help implement that industrial strategy

  3. · Policy Watch

    Research and innovation in the industrial strategy

    Which research areas are the big winners in the new industrial strategy? David Kernohan takes notes.

  4. · Wonk Corner

    Graduates move to get better opportunities. And they don’t come back

    Social mobility, but not the kind that benefits left-behind areas

  5. · Comment

    The world is sorting out the quality of transnational education, but where is England?

    International collaboration on assuring the quality of higher education is everywhere. David Kernohan suspects that England is nowhere

  6. · Wonk Corner

    We still don’t have a clue about the income or cost from transnational education

    The methodology has been revised, but perhaps not enough

  7. · Wonk Corner

    Prevent data, 2023–24

    The OfS has published details of a chilling effect from chairs. Or something.

  8. · Wonk Corner

    Capital and finance data requirements tighten

    OfS making it harder to do things again.

  9. · Wonk Corner

    What’s in the spending review for higher education

    Not much.

  10. · Data

    University spending and cost recovery, 2023–24

    There’s new TRAC data, and DK spots evidence that universities may be finding ways to cut costs

  11. · Analysis

    What’s coming for higher education in the spending review?

    Ahead of the big day, David Kernohan teases out what we might see in the Starmer government’s first major long-term spending plans

  12. · Wonk Corner

    How not to invent a new official geography

    DK gets unreasonably bothered by maps

  13. · Data

    The UK’s register of university spin-outs

    The long awaited register of university-owned or university-founded spin-outs is here. David Kernohan and James Coe check for absences

    With James Coe

  14. · Wonk Corner

    Preparing for TEF 2027? Hang on a moment

    TEF continues to seek a role as OfS attempts to finally design a cohesive quality system and perhaps even meet international standards

  15. · Policy Watch

    Universities UK’s new era of collaboration

    The UUK transformation and efficiency taskforce has released a report that sets out the sector’s appetite for collaboration and sharing. David Kernohan has the detail

  16. · Analysis

    Can LEO be used in regulation?

    The Institute for Fiscal Studies answers the last government’s question on earnings data in regulation. David Kernohan reads along

  17. · Wonk Corner

    Tracking the institutional impact of proposed OfS grant cuts

    We don’t know the exact details, but the signs are not good for smaller arts specialists

  18. · Wonk Corner

    How can you take industrial action against the Secretary of State?

    An innovation in industrial relations, or a giant distraction. Only time will tell.

  19. · Data

    Plotting the impact of an international fee levy

    There’s little detail on the proposed international student fee levy, but it is already clear which parts of the sector it would have the most deleterious impact on. David Kernohan has the numbers

  20. · Policy Watch

    A new regulatory framework is more than Medr by numbers

    David Kernohan reviews the Welsh tertiary regulator’s attempts to combine the best of rule- and principles-based regulation