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· Data
Diving into SLC provider level data
David Kernohan ponders and plots fee and maintenance loan availability in 2020-21. But why were unregistered providers getting fee loan income in 2020?
· Wonk Corner
Looking back at the first magic money twig
OfS has reviewed the use made of 2019-20 access and participation funding by providers. Yes, that funding.
· Policy Watch
Ministers are making new demands on access to and participation in higher education
In a speech and a letter, ministers have set new expectations on access and participation. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan wonder how universities will respond
With Jim Dickinson
· Analysis
Stuck inside of mobility with the access blues again
A new report from IFS and the Sutton Trust could change the game on access and participation. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson get across the new world of subject level data on access and outcomes
With Jim Dickinson
· Data
Is a first still worth it?
Fresh HESA/Warwick research describes how earnings and outcomes have been affected by degree attainment and classification. David Kernohan wonders if employers are changing their opinions.
· SUs · Members
Top ten takeaways from PTES 2021
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
24 things we learned from September’s OfS board papers
The Office for Students has published board papers for September, and David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have had a read so you don’t have to.
With Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
How bureaucratic is the Office for Students?
KPM 26 – the OfS bureaucracy, in their own words.
· Long read
Starting universities for political gain
Why would you start a university to prove a point? There are examples from history, but for David Kernohan the University of Austin represents a new first step down a very dark road.
· Policy Watch
The next few years of OfS will be the same, but harsher
OfS is consulting on a new strategy for 2021-2025. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan identify a curious lack of vision
With Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
VC pay 2019-20
The OfS have seen evidence of pay restraint among senior staff in the last year of available data.
· Wonk Corner
Where are all the creative arts PhDs?
If the conspiracies are true, and the Westminster government really want to wipe out creative arts provision in English higher education, all it needs to do is wait.
· SUs · Members
Students just don’t do the reading. Or do they?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
How your university would be impacted by a fee cut
David Kernohan models the impact on English providers of a cut to higher level fees – a proposal which is currently being considered by the government in Westminster
· Analysis
The Free Speech Bill would have had no impact on the Stock case
Michelle Donelan sees recent events at Sussex as a reason for the Freedom of Speech Bill. David Kernohan suggests the new measures would not have changed what happened.
· Data
Understanding where your graduates are
New data released by the Office for Students allows us to examine area-based outcomes and to start to see how these have an impact on provider level metrics. David Kernohan made some dashboards.
· Wonk Corner
Augar response? Fee cuts? Minimum qualifications? It’s all about timing
David Kernohan isn’t a super-forecaster, but he thinks that time may be the sector’s best defence against a damaging and ill-conceived Augar response
· Comment
What do we really know about how students use learning resources?
David Kernohan asks how we get to know how students feel about the resources they used during emergency remote learning
· Policy Watch
Here comes the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Bill
We’ve been waiting since the trailer came out last July, and now it is finally here. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson get to grips with TER(W)
With Jim Dickinson
· Analysis
University is popular, but the cost of living is a problem
New polling for the All Party Parliamentary University Group shows that demand for university remains strong in England, though student maintenance is becoming a huge issue. David Kernohan digs in to the data tables