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· Data
National Student Survey results, 2023
The national student survey is very new for this year. David Kernohan plots the data, but struggles to see what we learn about the way the student experience is changing
· Comment
Yes, the cost of university study does deter disadvantaged students
New research from the Sutton Trust finds a widespread appetite for higher education is dampened by perceptions of the cost of study.
· Wonk Corner
Is your local authority good at getting people into “good” universities?
DfE is using questionable data again.
· Wonk Corner
SQA results day 2023
All the data from the first day of peak admissions season.
· Wonk Corner
Ministerial corrections and clarifications
What makes for a genuinely impressive minister?
· Wonk Corner
Office for Students calls for evidence on short course regulation
OfS has started thinking about regulating the LLE early. Good thing too.
· Wonk Corner
ENQA highlights risk of UK nations divergence on quality assurance
The QAA gets an inspection, and the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) has thoughts on the latest round of quality wars.
· Data
Characteristics still determine student outcomes
Student characteristics data eloquently makes the argument that we need to benchmark regulatory data, finds David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
Fees for OfS investigations
In what is bound to be a popular move, the Office for Students confirms how it will charge you for its decision to impose a condition of registration.
· Data
The 2023 Office for Students grade inflation report leaves more questions unanswered
Some surprising methodological changes mean that we have to be even more wary of the OfS’s annual model of “unexplained” degree results, finds David Kernohan
· Wonk Corner
USS benefits and contributions look set to return to pre-2022 levels
USS is consulting employer representatives on the first part of the process that restores pension benefits and reduces contributions
· Data
Cutting fees for foundation years could turn out to be foolhardy
Ministers are clearly sceptical about the value of foundation years, but on the limited data available David Kernohan finds that the equalities impact of reducing them could be worse than anticipated
· Comment
Student number controls for “poor quality courses” are coming
David Kernohan summarises everything we know so far about the HE reform consultation response
· Wonk Corner
OfS has already used powers to cap recruitment
So, here we are again…
· Wonk Corner
How to regulate a regulator
GuildHE has yet more ideas about how to improve the quality of regulation in English higher education
· Wonk Corner
UCAS June deadline applications, 2023
On one level, there’s no surprises in the June deadline UCAS data.
· Analysis
How to get a maintenance loan without a fee loan
Who would just take out a maintenance loan and not a fee loan? Also – how? David Kernohan is asking the questions
· Wonk Corner
The impact of personal characteristics and industry on graduate earnings
It turns out there is a use for LEO – critiquing the use of outcomes measures.
· Wonk Corner
OfS provisional funding allocations, 2023-24
Rejoice, for the Office for Students is handing out money!
· Analysis
What’s the point of LEO in 2023?
LEO – it promised much, but in regulatory terms has delivered little. David Kernohan wonders what went wrong