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· Wonk Corner
Who wants to be minister for higher education?
Hard work, difficult politics, and the chance to be forever associated with the outgoing PM – who would fancy that?
· Policy Watch
Can we ever go back to less “inflated” grades?
More action – and a commitment to return to pre-pandemic classification proportions – is coming on grade inflation. David Kernohan wonders if we have lost sight of the fundamentals.
· SUs · Members
A beginner’s guide to academic workload modelling
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
A difficult road ahead for sector finances
A whole range of sector financial data released by OfS sees further international recruitment optimism hiding a concerning few years ahead.
· Wonk Corner
LLE comes a step closer
Applications for Higher Education Short Course Loans are now open
· Comment
Can OfS cancel cancel culture?
What did the Lords have to say about free speech on campus? David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson watch the second reading of the free speech bill so you don’t have to.
With Jim Dickinson
· Research
Learning technology needs to support learner success
Ministers are demanding a return to normal, while universities are using an ever-greater range of technologies to support students – but what do those doing the teaching make of it all? David Kernohan has data from a new
· Comment
Applicants were rejected by default on the day of their exams
David Kernohan asks why some applicants faced rejection before breakfast and high-stakes exams afterwards in 2022.
· Comment
Students want freedom from discrimination and freedom of speech
There’s new HEPI findings on student attitudes to discrimination and free speech – but what does the data actually say? David Kernohan has your back.
· Data
Graduate Outcomes 2019-20: provider level
There are a lot of surprising things to be found at provider level in this year’s graduate outcomes data. David Kernohan tries to put them in context.
· Analysis
Graduate outcomes 2019-20: the sector
Graduates are becoming more anxious, further study is increasingly an option for the advantaged, grade inflation has had no impact on graduate employment, and computing graduates are those struggling to find work. David
· Data
Is it getting harder to get a university place?
David Kernohan sees some signals that a decade of university expansion may be drawing to a close
· Wonk Corner
Michelle Donelan at Commons Education Committee
LLE and HE reform consultation responses are due “in the next few months” – this is what we have to deal with in the mean time.
· Policy Watch
The Freedom of Speech Bill clears the Commons
Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan watched the Commons report stage and third reading of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill so you didn’t have to
With Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
IFS on adult education
However could adult skills provision have sunk to such a low ebb, and will planned changes do much to address it?
· Wonk Corner
Graduate Labour Market Survey 2021
More labour market data delights from the Westminster government
· Comment
Two speeches, one morning
Michelle Donelan re-rehearsed her stump speech and Katharine Birbalsingh doubled down on a troubling view of social mobility. David Kernohan lowers his aspirations.
· Analysis
Anxious students want to us to help them spend time with and learn with each other
What are students saying about post-pandemic learning and teaching? Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan learn the lessons from this year’s Student Academic Experience Survey
With Jim Dickinson
· Policy Watch
Less jargon and more evidence is needed on skills
Microcredentials are the fashionable term in skills provision, but there’s no evidence that learners or employers have any interest in the idea. David Kernohan wonders why we are focused on supply rather than demand.
· Wonk Corner
HESA Spring 2022: Business and Community Interaction data
It’s not really spring any more, but we’ve a new data release from HESA to look at.