Saturday 3 October 2026
David Kernohan

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David Kernohan

Deputy Editor

1,574 pieces

Newest first, since February 2011 · page 74 of 79

  1. · Data

    The participation game

    David Kernohan and Louis Coiffait rummage through the latest higher education participation data, charting a game of snakes and ladders.

    With Louis Coiffait

  2. · Comment

    Walking in Memphis – the Student Loans Company in Darlington

    David Kernohan visits Darlington, one of the homes of the Student Loans Company.

  3. · Data

    Drama backstage? Clearing statistics in 2018

    It’s the last day of clearing, and David Kernohan has been looking into the latest UCAS data.

  4. · Policy Watch

    A step change for access and participation?

    David Kernohan analyses OfS consultation documents on its approach to regulating access and participation, and explains why it is the biggest change in the realm of widening access since the 2004 genesis of the Office fo

  5. · Policy Watch

    Open access – “S” club is going to show you how

    The mysteriously titled “Plan S” is the boldest attempt yet to speed up the adoption of open access. But in reaching for the stars, will research funders ever have a dream come true? David Kernohan has a look.

  6. · Policy Watch

    Result! A level results day 2018

    David Kernohan and Louis Coiffait attempt to digest today’s A-level results, along with all the accompanying spin.

    With Louis Coiffait

  7. · Data

    The problem of predicting A levels

    PQA, widening participation… a lot of common policy talking points come from the peculiarly British phenomenon of using predicted grades to plan university admissions. Wonkhe’s David Kernohan looks at the data.

  8. · Data

    NSS2018 – feeling the heat?

    Our first look at the 2018 National Student Survey results includes a bunch of David Kernohan’s visualisations – but even they can’t improve what appears to be some quite difficult news for the sector.

    With Arthi Nachiappan

  9. · Long read

    The strange tale of the University of London Bill

    Parliamentary arcana, the wilder shores of governance – it could only be David Kernohan writing about the University of London Bill

  10. · Policy Watch

    What we now know about REF2021

    The latest clutch of REF documentation just landed, and David Kernohan has been taking a look.

  11. · Stacks

    Office for Students rewrites sector history

    David Kernohan was excited to read the first entries on the shiny new Office for Students Register. But he wasn’t expecting to find an ancient hierarchy turned upside down…

  12. · Data

    Three stories from the UCAS June deadline data

    It’s June deadline data day at UCAS, and who better than Wonkhe’s David Kernohan to take you through the interesting points via the gift of Tableau.

  13. · Data

    Destination of Leavers from HE – benchmarked

    David Kernohan takes a first look at how institutions have performed against their benchmarks with respect to employment and further study.

  14. · Data

    Where are the mature students in 2017?

    David Kernohan takes a look at the data underlying a special UCAS report into the phenomenon of disappearing mature students.

  15. · Live

    LIVE: Proceed With Caution, London

    All the latest from Proceed with Caution – fees, funding and the future of higher education, from the Wonkhe Team.

  16. · Data

    YouGov if you want to: the data behind the “snowflake” story

    David Kernohan can’t resist diving in to the the data that underpins the most recent brace of “snowflake students”/”no platform” stories.

  17. · Data

    Benchmarking ethnicity in TEF

    What can TEF data show us about the experience of BME students on campus and on graduation? asks David Kernohan

  18. · Data

    LEO’s star ascendant in 2018

    Interactive LEO 2018 visualisations from David Kernohan.

  19. · Data

    Bang! – grade inflation in TEF3

    The OfS finally released the TEF3 “grade inflation” data. Wonkhe’s DK renders it in a more useable format to help us make sense of what it says.

  20. · People

    Research and innovation, the Welsh way

    David Kernohan talks to Graeme Reid, the author of the recent review of government funded research and innovation in Wales.