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· Data
Here’s where we need to put new some new universities
Should we let the market decide where higher education needs to grow, or should we make our own decisions? David Kernohan uses data to make some recommendations, and invents a new area-based measure in the process
· Wonk Corner
Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill passes stage 1 Senedd scrutiny
We’re one step closer to a new tertiary education regulatory system in Wales
· Long read
Is it time to think again about student number controls?
David Kernohan calls for the start of a new, informed, conversation about student number controls and the role of planning in the future of the English higher education sector.
· Analysis
Who paid the price for provider survival during the pandemic?
There’s a new report on how universities’ finances were regulated during the pandemic. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson find a struggle to define and secure value
With Jim Dickinson
· Long read
What did ministers intend on quality and standards?
David Kernohan goes back to bill debates to find the roots of the stipulations and requirements that shape England’s approach to higher education quality and standards
· SUs · Members
Understanding “graduate attributes”
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
OfS knows best on quality and standards – what could go wrong?
The Office for Students has finalised new quality and standards arrangements. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson assess the role of regulators, students and academics in the new rules
With Jim Dickinson
· Comment
Is it safe to talk about subjects again?
The Augar response was notably light on invective and intervention on poor quality subjects. David Kernohan was pleased about that.
· Policy Watch
More questions than answers on the Lifelong Loan Entitlement
The consultation on the Lifelong Loan Entitlement asks all the right questions, but at a high enough level to make David Kernohan suspect planning is at a very early stage
· Data
HESA data spring 2022: widening participation performance indicators
It’s the last ever release of HESA widening participation performance indicators. David Kernohan asks what we have learned
· Wonk Corner
Academic starters and leavers
Are there more or less academic staff in your university than this time last year?
· Analysis
Has the freedom of speech bill been cancelled?
Parliamentary process and politics may well have combined to stymie an unpopular and unworkable bill. David Kernohan has been reading Erskine May
· Analysis
Teaching in higher education should be professionalised
Anyone can teach in higher education – but we owe it to staff and students to help them become the best tutors they can. David Kernohan asks what can be done.
· Wonk Corner
Who wants to be Designated Data Body?
This weeks HESA/Jisc merger noises open up an opportunity for new data bodies to compete for designation.
· Data
UCAS 2022 cycle January deadline
We’d already priced in stability in applications, but David Kernohan finds some very interesting sub-trends in the January deadline data
· Wonk Corner
DfE moves to centralise post-16 policy
Concerning hints at the future of post-compulsory policy arrived with Sir David Bell’s review of the Education and Skills Funding Agency
· Data
HESA Spring: where students come from and what they study?
Full detail on the HESA 2020-21 student population includes a very welcome surprise. David Kernohan unwraps some important new data on local recruitment
· Wonk Corner
London Churchill College gets a condition of registration over quality
London Churchill College is the latest English provider of higher education to have a specific ongoing condition of registration placed upon it by the Office for Students – and OfS has published a “regulatory case report
· Wonk Corner
First look at the new price groups
New data from OfS shows us changes in the size and shape of providers.
· Wonk Corner
Blake calls APP England
Rumours of tearing up existing plans and writing new ones may have been wide of the mark