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· Wonk Corner
Revoking the revocation of the free speech act commencement
What if the real free speech is the opportunity to learn fun facts about the way laws are made and commenced?
· Wonk Corner
REF people, culture, and environment pilot submissions detailed
There’s some more information on what participating providers may need to submit to the PCE end of REF 2029, but we are still clearly at very early stages and certainty is a long way off
· Wonk Corner
Entry rates vary widely by local authority area
A new report from NEON illustrates that the impact of early deprivation on university entry is a postcode lottery
· Data
Exploring the explosion in franchise and partnership activity
It’s surprisingly hard to see where students are registered on courses at one provider, taught at another, and physically located at a third. David Kernohan has a go
· Wonk Corner
What’s odd about the latest award of degree awarding powers
Warwickshire gains indefinite tDAPs – with a unique (and inapplicable) condition
· Wonk Corner
Exit, pursued by a bear
Hit by a barrage of unfortunate OfS policy decisions, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School withdraws from undergraduate higher education
· Wonk Corner
Value for money polling from YouGov
Fees too high or everything getting worse? Or a bit of both?
· Wonk Corner
We’re still waiting for answers on the Scottish budget for higher education
Is that 3.5 per cent rise in the room with us now, Minister?
· Policy Watch
Innovation and skills in the English devolution white paper
The government is doubling down on the mayoral model of devolution across England. David Kernohan and Michael Salmon go through what it means for regional R&D, skills, and universities’ relationship with local government
With Michael Salmon
· 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