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· Analysis
How do we get to a loan?
David Kernohan has another proposal to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the sector – but this bailout would come at no long term cost to the treasury, explicitly safeguard sector capacity, and allow prospective student
· Policy Watch
Eighteen asks from the sector’s SMEs
Independent HE has called for a distinctive set of mitigations to issues that Covid-19 presents its members. David Kernohan takes a walk on the SME side.
· Policy Watch
Help for heroes? The MillionPlus / Universities UK key worker bail out plan
A new proposal from Universities UK and MillionPlus aims to attract government funds to the sector to support current and future key workers. David Kernohan has a first look.
· Analysis
Does the cap fit? and other existential questions
How will undergraduate applicants to English HEIs behave during the 2020 cycle? Nobody knows, but David Kernohan has some scenarios and models to show you.
· Policy Watch
The recruitment economics of Covid-19
A new report models the financial impact of changes to recruitment to universities. David Kernohan picks through the assumptions.
· Analysis
Will doubling QR be enough?
David Kernohan examines the scale of the financial risk to English HE providers and how the plans to double non-project research funding measure up.
· Comment
So long, and thanks for all the TEF?
What if the now indefinitely postponed TEF remains furloughed forever?
· Policy Watch
Too big to fail? A request for government support for providers following Covid-19
UUK has published details of a package to support universities as we emerge from Covid-19. David Kernohan asks what it might mean for your institution
· Analysis
Predicted or calculated – getting grades without exams
With new guidance available on the calculation of A level results in 2020 following the cancellation of summer exams, David Kernohan puts it in context with the wider practice of predicting grades.
· SUs · Members
Preparing to discuss your university’s finances
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Data
Which providers are exposed to a downturn in international recruitment?
HESA Spring returns with a look at the 2018-19 finance data, with a particular emphasis on income from international student recruitment.
· Comment
Can universities safely implement “no detriment” assessment policies?
Petitions for “no detriment” policies have swept the sector – but are they safe to implement for universities under fire for grade inflation? David Kernohan runs through the issues
· Long read
How to… reinstate number controls in English HE
The new argument about number controls has been heavy on principle and light on policy. How might such controls be implemented, and what would be the likely impact? David Kernohan runs through the options.
· SUs · Members
As everything moves online, do you know your data rights?
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Data
Covid-19 will last a long time in regulatory data
These are strange times. But their very strangeness offers a particular series of challenges to the way we use data in higher education regulation.
· Policy Watch
Covid-19: Is secrecy over university finances in the student interest?
The English HE regulator is responding to Covid-19. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson look at what universities will have to do if their finances look shaky
With Jim Dickinson
· Data
An extra year of LEO data shows the impact of graduate background on earnings
However much ministers and commentators like to assume graduate earnings link to subject of study and provider, your background still has a significant issue on what you earn. David Kernohan plots the data.
· Data
Which universities are moving to remote teaching?
A regularly updated visualisation of UK universities who have moved to online or remote delivery as a result of Covid-19.
· Analysis
The B3 bear has been in court – and won
There’s been a judicial review of an OfS decision. Jim Dickinson and David Kernohan look at the judgment and the implications.
With Jim Dickinson
· SUs · Members
It’s a myth! Made up things about students and universities FINALLY REVEALED
This is a briefing for Wonkhe SUs subscribers. To find out more go to the SUs page in the menu above.
With Wonkhe SUs explainer