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· Comment
21 things we learned from March’s OfS Board papers
What better way to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee than with the board minutes of England’s higher education regulator? Jim’s your DJ, and DK’s made some fruit scones.
With Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
OfS union branch weighs in on Wharton
The episode appears to have had what we can only describe as a chilling effect on Office for Students staff
· SUs · Members
Who is James Wharton and why is he in the news?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
OfS plans for 2022-23
Everything the higher education regulator for England will get up to in 2022-23
· Policy Watch
The skills problem may be harder and more complex than we thought
The government released a great deal of valuable research about skills and levelling up yesterday – luckily David Kernohan has read it so you don’t have to
· Wonk Corner
The demise of the “left wing madrassa”?
Our understanding of the political divide between graduates and non-graduates needs a lot more nuance – a great new paper from the British Election Study explains where.
· Comment
This is fine: regulation, autonomy, and fear
Autonomy and thoughtful assurance are noble aims, but David Kernohan suspects that threatening universities with fines all the time won’t help us get there.
· Data
Unconditional offers? Low entry qualifications are now the concern
The latest (and final) iteration of OfS analysis on unconditional offers seems – to David Kernohan – to point the way towards evidence backing up MERs
· SUs · Members
Should students have to learn how to make arguments- and be assessed on it?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Higher education and racism: Parliament hears evidence
There’s a sense in which a big part of today’s Commons Women and Equalities Committee hearing on racial harassment and discrimination could have happened any time in the past 15 years.
· Wonk Corner
Capital competition from OfS
If you want teaching capital you are going to have to write a funding proposal – and the rules are sharply exclusionary
· Data
An industrial turn for LEO
For the first time the industrial sectors that graduates work in enter the LEO dataset. David Kernohan gets to work.
· Wonk Corner
You were the Data Futures, once
The latest in the interminable saga of making a higher education data system fit for the twenty-first century.
· Analysis
Understanding the REF 2021 results
The full REF 2021 results have been published and David Kernohan starts the work of unpacking what it all means and bringing out key points of interest from the mass of data
· Policy Watch
Everything in the 2022 Queen’s Speech for higher education
Government plans for this session include a Higher Education Bill. David Kernohan wore a robe to listen in
· Wonk Corner
John Blake at #AccessAllAreas
OfS’ John Blake opened our Access All Areas event in conversation with Mark Leach. Here’s what he talked about.
· Comment
Learning resource aggregators can give open educational resources a new lease of life
Open educational resources are free at point of use but cost in production, collation, and distribution. David Kernohan investigates a Kortext project to make OERs more widely accessible
· Explainer
What is the meaning of REF?
The last one was in 2014, so you can be forgiven for being a bit rusty. David Kernohan walks you through the Research Excellence Framework
· SUs · Members
What do students think about tech and how useful it is on their course?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
Reviewing the Higher Education and Research Act, five years on
The Department for Education is late submitting a post-legislative review memorandum for HERA. Never mind, David Kernohan is happy to help.