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· 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
· 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
· Wonk Corner
Are graduates facing the worst jobs market on record?
There’s a thing in the Telegraph again. Sorry about this.
· 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
· Wonk Corner
A busy UCAS clearing for 2026
All the news from the UCAS clearing data releases
· 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.
· 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
· 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
· Wonk Corner
The Social Mobility Commission builds university league tables with eight year old data
It is not clear why
· 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
· 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
· Wonk Corner
Research England funding allocations, 2026-27
What institutional-level formula allocations look like for the coming year
· Wonk Corner
Fishing, with Neil O’Brien
DfE gives the Conservative HE spokesperson another spreadsheet.
· 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
· 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
· 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
· Wonk Corner
OfS sets aside £660k to pay Sussex costs
Everything we spotted in the annual report and accounts
· Wonk Corner
International fee levy confirmed
It’s all pretty much as planned.
· Comment
Discount rates don’t work for higher education
We think short term about graduate returns, and the public accounting models we use bake this presumption in. DK has been at the green book again.
· Wonk Corner
Sector support on contextual offers
New guidance from UUK, UCAS, and the Sutton Trust aims to make contextual offer making fairer and more transparent