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· SUs · Members
What happened to the health and wellbeing of staff during Covid?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
No new age for higher education funding in Budget 2021
Did Rishi Sunak’s second budget of 2021 leave you wanting more detail? Us too. David Kernohan takes a look at what is there for higher education and what is expected in “the next few weeks”
· Wonk Corner
Minimum entry requirements would do the opposite of levelling up
As a way to limit aspiration and intensify social stratification, minimum entry requirements would be a surefire winner.
· Wonk Corner
The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, part two?
Another one? Isn’t one Skills and Post-16 Education Bill enough?
· Wonk Corner
Research England allocations 2021-22
We’ve details of allocations for 2021-22 – so I thought I’d plot them for you so you can see how much your provider can look forward to.
· Policy Watch
What is a “world class specialist” provider?
The Office for Students is consulting on new rules for an old funding stream. David Kernohan has thoughts about categorising universities.
· Wonk Corner
A last chance to lobby for R&D at the Science and Technology Committee
There’s been rumours around the research end of the sector that things are not looking good for the spending review next week.
· SUs · Members
Student voice and Muslim students
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
How will new laws on essay mills work?
David Kernohan looks at what might be a crime and what might not be under the government’s proposed essay mill amendments to the Skills and Post-16 Higher Education Bill.
· Comment
The room where it happens – and who can enter it
David Kernohan is less than impressed with the new orthodoxy about social mobility
· Wonk Corner
IHE21: Burghart breaks his duck, and regulators mount up
The Independent HE conference doesn’t get the coverage that other sector body events do, but there was some pretty notable stuff happened earlier today.
· SUs · Members
What is “student success” and why does it matter to SUs?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Analysis
It’s report stage in the Lords for an unwieldy Bill
For David Kernohan it’s easier keeping track of what isn’t in the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill than what is.
· Comment
Book review: Retreat or Resolution by Peter Scott
In Retreat or Resolution, Peter Scott takes a long term view for how to reform mass higher education. David Kernohan shares his thoughts on how successful Scott might be
· Wonk Corner
Outreach coverage data for England
It’s not complete data, but we now have a sense of which schools are likely to be working with HE providers and which are not.
· SUs · Members
How to follow a Bill through Parliament
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
HESA has a new area-based measure of deprivation
A new, high-resolution, area based measure of local deprivation has arrived.
· Comment
Twelve things we learned from July’s OfS board papers
The Office for Students has published board papers for July, and David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have had a read so you don’t have to.
With Jim Dickinson
· Comment
A graduate tax is still the fairest way for graduates to contribute to the cost of their study
The graduate tax is very much the Cinderella policy of the higher education funding world. David Kernohan drives a coach and horses through attempts to salvage the current debt-based model.
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How to get it right for disabled students
With Wonkhe SUs explainer