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· Comment
Let’s go fly a kite: Single-cellular scholarship
Wonkhe’s David Kernohan takes a bacteriological approach to the history and future of the HE sector.
· Analysis
New year, old arguments – value for money in higher education
New research from YouGov and The Times opens up some old arguments about value for money. The team make sense of it all.
With Arthi Nachiappan and Jim Dickinson
· Policy Watch
Policy Watch: OfS report on grade inflation
Wonkhe’s David Kernohan takes a seasonal look at OfS’s unseasonable report on grade inflation, and how 2010/11 was the greatest and most fairly graded year ever.
· Analysis
Another Augar leak: but does it deliver for the treasury?
David Kernohan looks at the implications of the latest leak from Phillip Augar’s review of Post-18
· People
Haldane and the birth of the modern HE sector
On the centenary of his influential machinery of government report, David Kernohan looks at the career of Richard Burdon Haldane, a man who did more than most to shape the HE sector we know today.
· Data
Driving home for Christmas? Commuting as a symptom of student disadvantage
David Kernohan takes a close look at a HEPI paper by David Macguire and David Morris examining the nature and experience of “commuter” students.
· Policy Watch
Other people’s children – Hinds on technical education
David Kernohan analyses Damian Hinds’ interesting intervention on technical education and wonders whether it will help fix the parity problem.
· Policy Watch
How do unconditional offers affect attainment?
Arthi Nachiappan and David Kernohan analyse, using tableau visualisations, UCAS’ modelling of the impact of unconditional offers on offer holders’ attainment, and look at the details on the demographics of those receivin
With Arthi Nachiappan
· Policy Watch
Higher education’s absolute earnings benefit
David Kernohan has questions about the latest release of IFS LEO analysis. But it’s OK, he has graphs too.
· Data
Impact of English post-18 review in Wales
David Kernohan looks at an unintended, and potentially damaging, impact that Wales will see from a policy decision made for political ends in an entirely different country.
· Data
Student loans visualised
David Kernohan and Arthi Nachiappan explore the figures and trends in loans issued by the Student Loans Company across the nations in the latest full academic year ending 2018.
With Arthi Nachiappan
· Analysis
Topping up £6.5k fees and how to (re)build a funding council
Lower tuition fees could mean institutional top ups – but is the OfS still funding council enough for the job? David Kernohan thinks so.
· Data
Myths and realities of sector finance II: balances and borrowing
Following up last week’s examination of institutional income through recent history, Wonkhe’s David Kernohan brings expenditure into the picture.
· Policy Watch
Taking is too easy: leaks from the Augar review
The leaked proposals would have far reaching effects for the sector. David Kernohan takes a first run at modelling what would happen.
· Data
Myths and realities of sector finance
David Kernohan uses visualisations to look at the way the English HE sector’s financial fortunes have changed since 1994.
· Policy Watch
Policy Watch: Subject TEF year 2
The government’s response to the subject TEF and pilots gives David Kernohan a lot to consider.
· Data
The NSS: a survey
David Kernohan summarises the history of the NSS, and presents a range of historical data.
· Policy Watch
Policy Watch: The Office for Students on free speech
An Office for Students board paper examines the issue of free speech on campus. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson take a look.
With Jim Dickinson
· Data
Who works in a university?
David Kernohan tip-toes precariously around what the various categories in the HESA Staff Return actually mean for how we understand the nature of the HE workforce.
· Analysis
Plenty ventured, but what was gained?
David Kernohan traces the history of learning gain agenda – an agenda whose ambitious goal would probably represent the most significant finding in the history of educational research