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· Data
UCAS End of Cycle, 2025: provider recruitment strategies
What happened in the 2025 UCAS cycle? David Kernohan has a look at institutional strategies using the latest provider-level data release
· Policy Watch
A new international education strategy
David Kernohan runs through everything we’ve spotted in the government’s new international education strategy
· Wonk Corner
Three years on, TPS pensions are still very expensive for higher education
And the call is to scrap the rule that requires some providers to participate
· Data
The grade inflation mutant algorithm, 2026
Grade inflation is falling, but OfS still thinks too many are getting good degrees. David Kernohan asks what it would take to know what is really going on
· Wonk Corner
41 per cent of Reform-voting undergraduates don’t think Reform should be allowed to speak on campus
That’s a bigger proportion than for the whole sample. Which is something of a mood.
· Wonk Corner
What’s in the Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill?
And why does it need to happen so quickly?
· Comment
Identifying “mickey mouse” courses
Critiques of the value, validity, and political foundation of degree courses have been with us for generations. David Kernohan searches for the meanings behind “mickey mouse”
· Comment
What is going on at Trinity Hall?
Is Trinity Hall Cambridge really reversing access and participation efforts? David Kernohan looks in to the detail
· Data
Alterni-TEF, 2026
Which groups of students are struggling? It’s all in the data, and DK has the TEF charts you need
· Data
2025 higher education in twelve charts
It’s like a popular series of compilation albums, but with tableau dashboards rather than minor pop hits. David Kernohan brings you the year in higher education numbers
· Wonk Corner
Why we need to treat statistics about higher apprentices five years on with caution
Another Sunday, another think tank all over the Sunday papers
· Wonk Corner
Posh? Exceeded your A level expectations? You are less likely to go to university
Yeah I’ve no idea what’s going on here!
· Data
UCAS End of Cycle sector level data, 2025
The UCAS End of Cycle data for 2025 offers more evidence for what may be leading to recruitment growth at high tariff providers. DK has the charts.
· Wonk Corner
House of Commons Library on student financial support
And there’s a time series going back to 1960.
· Wonk Corner
Sub-contractual providers need to register with OfS
The Department for Education’s proposals from January will become a requirement from 2027.
· Wonk Corner
What do we know about land owned by universities?
A new report from SUMS consulting offers answers on everything from heat islands to opportunities for forestation
· Comment
Quality assurance behind the dashboard
There is another quality assurance system in England: it has little to do with outcomes metrics, and a lot to do with meeting immediate needs. David Kernohan lifts the lid.
· Wonk Corner
HESA has updated financial data to the delight of international fee levy modelers everywhere
Boldly redefining spring, we can now do a better model of the fee levy
· Wonk Corner
UCU pay ballot fails to meet threshold
No industrial action expected from UCU on the 2025-26 New Jnches pay round
· Wonk Corner
Regulatory burden relief for FE colleges
The days of regulatory duplication may be drawing to a close, in one part of the sector at least