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· Comment
The data dark ages
Without any fuss, large survey instruments are starting to fail. David Kernohan asks what is going on and what might happen next
· Wonk Corner
The sector may be set for industrial action next term
UCU’s Higher Education Committee has voted to ballot on industrial action over pay, with the possibility of strikes before Easter.
· Wonk Corner
A theory of change for the B3 bear
The OfS is thinking about why it does what it does to regulate based on outcomes
· Data
Sector level UCAS end of cycle data, 2024
What’s been going on with undergraduate recruitment? David Kernohan separates rumour from reality with the latest release of 2024 cycle data from UCAS
· Wonk Corner
The scourge of “overqualification”
OECD has been at it again
· Wonk Corner
There’s a major problem with (the) graduate outcomes (survey)
There’s three pillars to the Office for Students’ outcomes (B3) monitoring – the most visible of the ways the regulator attempts to assure quality and value on behalf of higher education students.
· Wonk Corner
2023-24 financial data (early year financial year end version)
Healthy providers manage, transitional providers struggle. As you might expect.
· Wonk Corner
Another social mobility rethink
David Kernohan wonders when we’ll get a more nuanced take on university contributions to regional and local communities
· Wonk Corner
Concern that affected no students resolved to OfS’ satisfaction
Another triumph for risk-based regulation as a theoretical resit anomaly is resolved at the University of Wolverhampton
· Wonk Corner
OfS temporarily closes entry to the register
It’s to free up resources to focus on financial sustainability, apparently.
· Comment
What universities do now is more important than how they came to be
The age of a university is often used as a proxy for quality. David Kernohan learns from crustaceans that history can be misleading
· Data
Student Loans Company data on fees and maintenance, 2023-24
David Kernohan guides you through a little-understood dataset that highlights some glaring problems with the way we support students and fund higher education
· Wonk Corner
How skills, careers, and industrial policy fit together
Well… I say they fit together. It is complicated though.
· Wonk Corner
What are tariff groups and why do they not matter?
As the Clash put it: “Tariff – don’t like it!” David Kernohan lifts the lid on one of the sector’s more dubious institutional classifications
· Analysis
The regulator does not have a handle on the financial state of English higher education
OfS has updated financial models that demonstrate the sector is facing financial pressure. David Kernohan asks why we know so little, and so late
· Wonk Corner
OfS pays $100 to join an international quality assurance network
This is not the international quality assurance alignment we were hoping for
· Wonk Corner
A handful of things from the October 2024 OfS board papers
They publish (some of) the board papers, we read them. This is how it works.
· Wonk Corner
Is VC pay really spiraling out of control?
In real terms, quite the opposite.
· Long read
Trashing universities is now a populist position
An attack on higher education feels like a must have for every right wing populist platform. David Kernohan takes a couple of prominent recent examples for a spin
· Comment
Access and participation planning gains a regional dimension
The key to sorting the OfS’ problems with addressing geography and local needs has been bolted on to the access and participation planning process. David Kernohan teases it out from a John Blake speech