Sunday 18 October 2026
David Kernohan

Team Wonkhe

David Kernohan

Deputy Editor

1,579 pieces

Newest first, since February 2011 · page 2 of 79

  1. · Wonk Corner

    OfS figures out what a governing document is

    The Sussex reckoning continues

  2. · Wonk Corner

    How do universities and students get paid?

    How do students get maintenance loans and universities get fee income each term? – here’s how

  3. · Comment

    What brass bands can tell us about REF reform

    New science minister Chris McDonald loves brass bands. Will he grow to love the REF in the same way?

  4. · Policy Watch

    Assessing Scotland’s sector finances

    The first pillar of Scotland’s review of university funding looks at the current state of the sector. As DK finds, the evidence is not encouraging

  5. · Wonk Corner

    The official introduction to Chris McDonald

    As roles are formally announced James Coe and DK take a look at the life and times of Chris McDonald, the new Minister for Science

    With James Coe

  6. · Wonk Corner

    Are graduates facing the worst jobs market on record?

    There’s a thing in the Telegraph again. Sorry about this.

  7. · Data

    Everything you ever wanted to know about TRAC

    It is the sector’s most underused, and most misunderstood, data collection. David Kernohan wants to get it back on TRAC

  8. · Wonk Corner

    A busy UCAS clearing for 2026

    All the news from the UCAS clearing data releases

  9. · Data

    A bumper crop of higher education entrants, but is university becoming less popular among the better off?

    It’s DK’s annual data spectacular on JCQ (A level and other level three outside of Scotland) results day.

  10. · Wonk Corner

    What commentators say about A levels and university every year

    Call it a sneak preview of results day, but with some deeper than usual responses

  11. · Analysis

    Weekend delivery rules won’t be judicially reviewed

    Five universities attempted to bring about a review of the ineligibility of weekend-delivery students for maintenance loans. As David Kernohan reports, the court wasn’t keen

  12. · Wonk Corner

    The Social Mobility Commission builds university league tables with eight year old data

    It is not clear why

  13. · Wonk Corner

    The graduate repayment burden is growing and becoming more regressive. Here’s how to fix that

    A genuinely impressive higher education report in mid-August

  14. · Wonk Corner

    A bumper year for Scottish applicants

    All the action from Qualifications Scotland’s results day, and the first clearing data release of 2026

  15. · Wonk Corner

    Research England funding allocations, 2026-27

    What institutional-level formula allocations look like for the coming year

  16. · Wonk Corner

    Fishing, with Neil O’Brien

    DfE gives the Conservative HE spokesperson another spreadsheet.

  17. · The Post-18 Project

    The Post-18 Project: No country for young men

    Higher education faces a demographic cliff through to 2040. David Kernohan sets out four possible futures of higher education in a shrinking Britain

  18. · Comment

    Devolution is not the only answer – higher education still needs a national policy agenda

    New PM Andy Burnham wants to go further and faster on devolution, but for higher education, local focus still needs to be underpinned with a national policy infrastructure. David Kernohan assesses the options for action

  19. · Wonk Corner

    UCAS June deadline data shows a growth in application rates and offer making

    Everything you need from the final pre-clearing data release

  20. · Wonk Corner

    OfS sets aside £660k to pay Sussex costs

    Everything we spotted in the annual report and accounts