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· 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
· Analysis
Skills England has a new way to talk about skills, and the sector needs to listen
The UK Standard Skills Classification is a new way to think about the connections between courses and jobs. David Kernohan loves a new coding framework
· Wonk Corner
How can you get a maintenance loan and not a fee loan?
Still no satisfactory explanation
· Wonk Corner
Government would protect interests of “students, taxpayers, and research” in provider insolvency
And the committee seems to think there is one on the way before 2026.
· Analysis
Can there ever be a definitive graduate premium?
With the pressures of the current loan repayment system, it feels like the graduate premium has never been more central to higher education policymaking – or more difficult to accurately estimate. David Kernohan has the
· Wonk Corner
Size and shape dashboards, 2025
But why though?
· Wonk Corner
Telling people off is not a quality enhancement tool
And people like reading Wonkhe articles more than they do OfS investigation reports
· Wonk Corner
OfS capital allocations, 2025-26
A little bit of money for your new LED lights
· Comment
What’s in the new Office for Students strategy?
It’s taken eleven months, but the draft OfS strategy is now finalised. David Kernohan takes a look at what has changed
· Wonk Corner
If we wanted to do skills planning, could we?
In short, no.
· Wonk Corner
OfS reported for non-compliance
Can OfS even statutory instrument?
· Policy Watch
The Office for Students steps on to shaky ground in an attempt to regulate academic standards
The Office for Students’ intervention on degree algorithms poses some interesting questions about the role of regulation in maintaining academic standards. David Kernohan asks them.