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Newest first, since February 2011 · page 58 of 79
· Wonk Corner
Christmas in Wales and Scotland
The Scottish and Welsh governments have announced plans for students returning home for Christmas.
· Policy Watch
A Christmas miracle? DfE guidance on student travel
What’s in the long awaited DfE guidance for students returning home for Christmas? David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson sniff it suspiciously from a safe distance.
With Jim Dickinson
· Comment
Would PQA help disadvantaged students?
It’s taken as read that post-qualification admissions will help applicants from disadvantaged background. But, says David Kernohan, the question is still open.
· Analysis
Is it really fair to blame universities for the second wave?
High case numbers in the early autumn have led some to conflate the second wave with students and universities. For David Kernohan, the data doesn’t show that.
· Policy Watch
Not everything is moving online
Does Covid-19 really mean the future of higher education will mix online and in person as we are now? David Kernohan thinks strategic specialisation, not technology, will drive the future.
· Wonk Corner
OfS on telling students about changes in provision
With a national lockdown imminent, providers are considering how teaching might need to change. OfS has a guide to explaining this to students.
· Wonk Corner
DfE guidance on the “new national restrictions”
How should higher education in England approach the latest lockdown?
With Jim Dickinson
· Comment
22 things we spotted in the September OfS board papers
The Office for Students has published board papers for September, and Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan have had a read so you don’t have to.
With Jim Dickinson
· Data
Start to success? OfS may have a new metric
Very quietly, the Office for Students is consulting on a new derivative metric encompassing non-continuation and highly skilled employment. David Kernohan has had a glimpse of the future.
· Comment
Wonkhe surveys a survey about a student survey
The Office for Students has launched its consultation on the future of the National Student Survey. David Kernohan surveys the survey about the survey.
· SUs · Members
Why are 60s halls the way they are?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Are we over the campus Covid hump?
It’s recently been clear that the much of the growth in Covid-19 cases in England has been in small areas where many students are in term-time residence.
· Policy Watch
Coherence and sustainability: three-phase Scottish power
A Scottish Funding Council review is supportive of the sector as it stands, but ambitious in rethinking tertiary education post-Covid.
· Wonk Corner
Reading Amanda Solloway on the REF
The Science Minister’s speech to HEPI was heavily trailed as the starting point for a radical change to the Research Excellence Framework.
· Analysis
Fifty days to leave your uni?
David Kernohan tries to track down unknown student non-continuations by doing unspeakable things to sector datasets.
· SUs · Members
Students not as apathetic as policy-makers like to think
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Data
What is it about small areas with large numbers of Covid-19 cases?
The emerging discourse is that it is students, rather than any other risk factor, that are the best indicator of Covid-19 in a local area.
· Wonk Corner
Are test results sent to student home addresses distorting national Covid-19 data?
Poor data associated with Covid-19 test results in England (imagine!) may be distorting what we know about where the virus currently is spreading. Let’s see.
· Wonk Corner
Is the OfS “actively monitoring” digital teaching quality?
The short answer is no. The long answer is “no, it is not”.
· Data
Wonkhe’s Covid-19 data dashboards
Tracking Covid-19 cases in England and Wales against patterns of student residence.