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· Data
HESA spring: academic staff movement, and pay
How many academic staff left and joined your provider last year? How much are academic staff paid? David Kernohan reviews the data
· Comment
ChatGPT, assessment and cheating – have we tried trusting students?
Do AI advancements highlight problems with assessment itself? James Bagshaw, Charles Knight, and David Kernohan assess the evidence
With James Bagshaw and Charles Knight
· Wonk Corner
Peace in our time?
There’s been progress in sector disputes on pay, pensions, and working conditions
· Wonk Corner
Nicola Sturgeon’s higher education legacy
After eight years as First Minister, Sturgeon leaves a lot still to be done for students and universities in Scotland
· Wonk Corner
What’s going on “in the room”?
Everything you might want to know about ACAS conciliation
· Wonk Corner
Why students answer “don’t know” on parental education
With parental education experiences becoming a consideration in the regulation of access work, new HESA research asks what a “don’t know” might mean.
· Data
Finding the reality of who students are in data
David Kernohan finds the size and shape of the student population is strikingly different to popular perceptions
· Wonk Corner
Social Mobility Commission looks for added value
Can SMC solve the LEO puzzle?
· Wonk Corner
Applications are down on last year – but what does that mean?
The 2023 January deadline sees a rare decline in the number of prospective undergraduates – is this a reversion to the pre-pandemic trend or something more fundamental?
· Analysis
What’s happening with the short courses trial?
The government does not seem keen to talk about the short courses trial that will underpin the case for the LLE. David Kernohan wonders why.
· Wonk Corner
Government maintenance loan policy will have a “negative impact” on students, says government
Students should have seen an 18.5 per cent increase in maximum maintenance loan rates this year to match inflation.
· Policy Watch
What’s in the 2023 Lifelong Learning (Higher Education Fee Limits) Bill?
We’ve been waiting for it since 2021, and now primary legislation to bring about the Lifelong Loan Entitlement is here. David Kernohan runs down its content and asks what is still to do to make LLE a reality?
· Data
HESA Spring 2023: students and place
The rest of the HESA student data is out – David Kernohan takes a deep dive into where students come from, where they study, and where they live
· Policy Watch
How pay negotiations work in UK universities
David Kernohan looks for the data and the constraints in the increasingly acrimonious New JNCHES system of higher education pay negotiation
· Wonk Corner
Modelling applicant preference and economic utility in UK higher education
Some fancy IFS maths appears to suggest that contextual admissions are the future for social mobility. They may well be, but is this model enough to make that leap?
· Comment
Why is OfS making a point of doing the Designated Quality Body down?
David Kernohan tries to fathom the value of OfS publishing a post hoc report on the performance of QAA as the Designated Quality Body
· Analysis
Plan 5 from outer space
Peers are not happy about the new student loan repayment plans. David Kernohan tries not to be negative about statutory instruments.
· Data
HESA Spring 2023: Students
David Kernohan separates time series artefacts from established trends in an analysis of our first glimpse of student data for 2021-22
· Explainer
Why can’t we just have more medical student places?
Training more doctors isn’t as simple as raising the caps on medical school places. David Kernohan learns the true cost of medical training
· Wonk Corner
HESA spring 2023: staff numbers
Like incessant rain and semester one final exams, the annual release of HESA data is one of the first indicators that winter is ending and spring is here.