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· 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
· Data
Local skills demand data may be more noise than signal
Gathering skills demand data to power a local skills revolution is hard work. David Kernohan appraises another attempt.
· Policy Watch
Collaboration is already baked in to the sector, and we need to see more of it
David Kernohan reads a Jisc/KPMG report that highlights the opportunities generated by providers working together and points out just how much joint work is already going on
· Comment
Bridget Phillipson increases fees by 3.1 per cent
Westminster’s Secretary of State for Education has resolved to increase undergraduate fees and maintenance by forecast inflation. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have all the analysis you need
With Jim Dickinson
· Analysis
How fees will rise by inflation
With an inflationary fee rise on the way we ask how it would need to happen, and why would this be the first rise since 2017? David Kernohan explains
· Wonk Corner
Getting money back from the Student Loans Company
The tale of a very special shopping trip for one lucky Wonkhe staff member
· Wonk Corner
Birkbeck computing B3 performance justified
The last entry in the 2022 B3 investigations is completed
· Wonk Corner
The Office for Students is pretty good, says the Office for Students
It’s KPM day!
· Wonk Corner
What’s the kerfuffle about PSNFL?
What does a change in fiscal rule target measures mean for the sector?
· Data
The demographic tide is turning, but university remains popular
David Kernohan asks whether a projected decline in young people spells shrinkage for the higher education sector
· Wonk Corner
Access goes backwards in Scotland
It’s a disappointing development, but are we seeing signs the area-based SIMD measure isn’t fit for purpose?
· Wonk Corner
Horizon funding could end up being a data definition problem
How can Horizon be supported by existing research funding when Horizon *is* existing research funding? It depends how you count it