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· Wonk Corner
Free Speech Bill – Impact Assessment
The impact assessment for the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill puts a best estimate of £48.1m on the overall costs of compliance over 10 years.
· Wonk Corner
An Irish flavour to EDSK’s line on admissions
The DfE university admissions consultation, which closed today, has seen encouragingly little support for the PQA model on offer from inside or outside the sector.
· Policy Watch
It’s 1986 all over again as free speech on campus gets a bill of its own
The government has published its Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan have everything you need to know, and more.
With Jim Dickinson
· Policy Watch
What’s in the Queen’s Speech for higher education?
There was a lot in the Queen’s Speech for the higher education sector. Here’s what we spotted.
With Jim Dickinson
· Data
Arts cuts bring further complications
Replacing OfS arts funding with more support for specialist providers does not help sustain the volume or diversity in provision. David Kernohan plots who loses out from this shift in priorities.
· SUs · Members
What is the secret for students to getting things done?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Applications and acceptances, by subject and provider
There’s been some suggestion that the phenomenon of providers “poaching” students happens earlier in the cycle.
· Analysis
Student number controls won’t fix higher education in the UK
There’s a lot wrong with the way we fund and manage higher education in the UK – David Kernohan isn’t sure restricting applicant choice is the way to fix any of the issues
· Wonk Corner
The problem of graduate jobs and odd SOCs
However much ministers may wish otherwise – occupation coding and associated skill level assessment are a matter of judgement, not a matter of fact.
· SUs · Members
Do students learn as well from e-textbooks as they do from hardcopies?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
UCU on the admissions consultation
This year’s UCU report on PQA takes the form of a response to the current consultation.
· Stacks
I read every paper in the first issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas
… and you’ll never believe what I found. Actually, you will, it’s mostly the same old contrarian stuff you always hear. Bit of a disappointment
· Wonk Corner
Examnishambles rumbles on
The problems we saw last summer are not a pandemic one off – they are central to the character of A levels.
· SUs · Members
How to make student voice more meaningful
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
Post qualification offer making is nearly as good as the current system
The latest intervention in the PQA wars sees UCAS tilt towards post qualification offers. David Kernohan wonders if the sunlit uplands of PQA are real after all.
· Data
Is it time to change our SOCs?
An expansion of the UK’s occupational coding framework suggests that the “poor quality courses” debate is still very much live. David Kernohan puts his boots on.
· Long read
The funding debate returns to top up fees
If we see Augar’s proposal of £7,500 maximum tuition fees come to fruition it will be hugely painful for the sector. What might happen?
· Policy Watch
What is there for higher education in the Welsh election manifestos?
Matt Grogan combs through party manifestos for higher education content ahead of the 2021 Welsh Assembly election
With Matt Grogan
· Wonk Corner
Who is London’s global university?
Well, it’s University College London’s marketing slogan. But what does the data say?
· Policy Watch
Micro-credentials – big problems?
The latest report from the QAA’s microcredentials project poses a lot of difficult questions for the sector – David Kernohan wonders how close we are to having answers.