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· Wonk Corner
Did the Universities UK compact on conditional offer making hold in 2022?
Following ministerial diktats and then regulation, responsibility for policing the use of “conditional unconditional” offer making passed to the sector midway through the 2022 cycle.
· Wonk Corner
What might be changing in university admissions from 2023 onwards?
A new publication highlights key changes to academic references, and offers you the chance to feed in to conversations on personal statements.
· Analysis
End of cycle 2022: equality and offer making
Who gets made an offer when they apply to university? David Kernohan plots the data.
· Analysis
End of Cycle 2022: Provider and subject level data
David Kernohan has all the charts you need to understand the way providers, and subject areas within providers, have fared in the 2022 UCAS cycle.
· Wonk Corner
Could ministers step in on university industrial action?
That Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill is quite the thing.
· Wonk Corner
Where do graduates live (Census 2021 edition)
It’s education day for Census 2021 – David Kernohan wonders whether graduates stay in student areas
· Data
Independent schools and university entry
Ahead of this week’s big admissions data drop, David Kernohan goes behind the headlines on applying to university from an independent school
· Wonk Corner
Where do students live (Census 2021 edition)
We now know where students live thanks to Census 2021, and we can use this data to understand other things about student areas.
· Wonk Corner
Private sector rental, fuel poverty, and student accommodation
2021 Census data continues to be released, and DK has been thinking about the private rental market.
· Long read
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
David Kernohan introduces us to workload modelling – a contentious but little understood process that is a very visible part of academic life
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
UK higher education’s 2022 in review
As we come to the end of a busy yet curiously unsatisfying year in higher education news, David Kernohan and Sunday Blake pick out the key themes from 2022.
With Sunday Blake
· Policy Watch
Post-legislative scrutiny of HERA begins
The post legislative scrutiny memo on the Higher Education and Research Act is finally here. David Kernohan wonders if we really have the system that was asked for.
· Explainer
What are creative arts courses?
With creative arts courses once again under fire for poor average graduate salaries, David Kernohan introduces this little understood part of the sector.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
Fully automated luxury research assessment?
The REF is hard work – so could we get machines to do it? David Kernohan looks at the latest evidence.
· Wonk Corner
Who’s small, specialist, and “world class”?
The decisions have been made – who will be in receipt of additional funding in recognition of their specialist nature?
· Wonk Corner
The new Brown Review promises local say on skills and research
It’s not just about abolishing the Lords…
· Analysis
A decade on, are we any nearer to fixing part-time study?
The post-Browne settlement promised hard times ahead for part-time study – David Kernohan asks whether things have got any better.
· Wonk Corner
What’s the difference between a private school and a university?
It’s not as easy to answer as you might think. But the answer, under Labour, might matter quite a lot.
· Data
A return to type for the OfS
What are institutions like? OfS responds to David Kernohan’s ongoing consultation from last year
· Comment
18 things we spotted in the September 2022 board papers
OfS keeps publishing board papers – David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson keep reading them. Here’s the highlights from the only board meeting held under Liz Truss’ premiership.
With Jim Dickinson