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· Data
A level results day 2020: Full results and university entry data
David Kernohan and Matt Grogan have all the data and reaction you need from A level results day 2020.
With Matt Grogan
· Policy Watch
Making a mockery of results day
36 hours before A level results day saw a dramatic DfE policy shift. David Kernohan holds his head in his hands and weeps.
· Wonk Corner
Scotland enters Adjustment
We overuse words like “unprecendented” and “sensational”, but there are few others to describe today’s change to the SQA results.
· Comment
What if the problem is A levels and Highers, not 2020?
As governments move to address injustices in 2020s A level and Higher grades, David Kernohan sees the problems that have been visible in the system for years.
· Wonk Corner
Where do your students come from in the UK? And why would you want to know?
So you might be thinking, “this is just an easier way to look at where students move from and to each year”. And you’d be right.
· Comment
30 things we learned from the OfS board papers for July 2020
The Office for Students has published board papers for July 2020, and David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have had a read so you don’t have to.
With Jim Dickinson
· Comment
We need a plan for student housing for the next decade
As HEPI publishes a new report on the realities of student accommodation, Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan urge decision makers to indulge in some planning.
With Jim Dickinson
· Analysis
Why are SQA results askew?
Calculated grades were always a risk, but the SQA results show a troubling pattern. David Kernohan plots it.
· Wonk Corner
Left-leaning graduates spotted
An interesting poll from Ipsos MORI gives us a little insight into the impact of university study on political leanings.
· Data
Are clearing and unconditional offers equally bad for student non-continuation?
Unconditional offers make students more likely not to complete their course. But so, finds David Kernohan, does entry through clearing – and we’re encouraging that. What’s going on?
· Analysis
Moving out of somewhere, moving on to nowhere?
A new report from the Social Mobility Commission takes a look at the wider socio-economic implications of moving within the UK for work or study. David Kernohan gets on the road.
· Wonk Corner
The Welsh recovery plan is refreshingly simple
This morning the Welsh government announced a £27m “Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund for Wales”.
· Policy Watch
How to design a degree algorithm
A new report from UKSCQA calls for a set of key principles and practices for degree algorithms design. David Kernohan asks what it all means.
· Data
If we can’t see pandemics in the NSS, what is it good for?
David Kernohan suggests that final year students may be more altruistic to future generations that we give them credit for.
· Wonk Corner
NSS2020 first look at data
Some quick tables and graphs from this years NSS, from dk
· Policy Watch
Introducing the Draft Tertiary Education and Research Bill for Wales
Though legislation has been delayed, Welsh education minister Kirsty Williams has published a draft tertiary education bill for consultation until December 2020. David Kernohan unpacks the details.
· Policy Watch
The return of higher technical education?
A first assessment of the UK government’s newly published plans for higher technical education
With Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
Where would you find a DipHE or CertHE?
Two famous sub-degree qualifications find themselves back in the news. But who is offering these courses in 2020? David Kernohan finds out.
· SUs · Members
An A-Z of higher education data for student officers and staff that support them
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Policy Watch
Graduate “overeducation” isn’t as simple to spot as you might think
David Kernohan has also read that back issue of the Oxford Review of Education, and played with some Graduate Outcomes data as well.