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· Policy Watch
TEF latest assessment – the Pearce review and the government’s response
Subject TEF is gone, the Olympic medals are gone, and the whole thing will happen much less often. But what will a new TEF look like? David Kernohan reads the submissions.
· SUs · Members
Is there any evidence of cancel culture?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Area comparisons, Covid case rates, and students
I am again prompted to thinking about what contribution the mass migration of students made to the second wave (October and November 2020) of Covid-19 in the UK
· Data
HESA spring 2021 – overall staff numbers
The yearly round of HESA data releases begins – David Kernohan looks at new data on overall staff numbers, staff characteristics, and employment terms.
· Analysis
Compensation blues
Students have had a rough deal this year – David Kernohan asks what the most effective way to compensate them would be.
· Wonk Corner
What’s a Ten Minute Rule bill, then?
Tuesday sees a Ten Minute Rule bill on free speech in universities introduced to the House of Commons. Here’s what’s going on.
· Policy Watch
Cancel exams! – but maybe bring them back
A short DfE/Ofqual consultation on this summer’s level three exams leaves many key questions unasked. David Kernohan writes on only one side of the paper.
· SUs · Members
This is why writing matters for student learning
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Looking back through the Student Travel Window
The Student Travel Window should have seen mass LFD testing of students, but what actually happened?
· Wonk Corner
All the subjects listed in 7 Jan DfE guidance that are not in the 31 December guidance
Specifying which students should be on campus by HECoS code was a bad idea. And it is being done badly.
· Policy Watch
How on earth do we run 2021 admissions now?
We’re back with teacher predicted grades in place of exams. What does this mean for admissions this year?
· Data
Who’s on campus during lockdown? And where?
“Tranche one” students will still be on campus. But which campuses will they be on? David Kernohan has an informed guess.
· Wonk Corner
What’s in the new English lockdown for universities?
It’s Groundhog day. Again. Lockdown part three has implications for higher education now and for the next academic year, so strap in.
· Comment
Last minute changes to return to campus guidance in England
The Westminster government has announced a last minute revised approach to January for universities. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan doubt it’s the last of the changes that will be needed.
With Jim Dickinson
· Stacks
The Doctor and the compound metric
How will the Doctor and his companion find the hidden “low quality courses”? Deep within the heart of the OfS data cube, a new plan is born. Trouble is, it isn’t very good.
· Wonk Corner
OfS fee levels 2021-22
Are you a student making a provider or course choice entirely based on fee levels? Then OfS has just the data for you!
· Wonk Corner
Broad OfS data on a subtle subject
It’s been quite the week for OfS publications. Today we get an ad-hoc data release on what impact ethnicity has on student continuation and applicant access in England.
· Policy Watch
The UCAS 2020 cycle – more normal than predicted
Normality reigns in the first release of end-of-cycle data from the UCAS 2020 cycle. But David Kernohan has spotted something curious about prediction.
· Wonk Corner
Publish or perish? The OfS on information
What information about providers should the OfS publish – and what should it keep private? The answers are complex and shifting.
· Data
New courses for old
David Kernohan uses iterations of the unistats dataset to identify where new courses are born and old courses are discontinued.