97 pieces
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· Analysis
The four challenges of Brexit: why we need wonks
Brexit will involve four particular challenges of considerable complexity and difficulty. Each will keep wonks and academics very busy indeed.
· Live
Live: Britain votes to leave the European Union
Britain has voted to leave the EU in the referendum. Our live blog will round up the implications for HE and the reactions from across the world of universities.
· Comment
What next for universities in our disunited kingdom?
Our country is divided and our universities stand firmly on one side of the debate. In the referendum’s aftermath, it is imperative that they reach out.
· Data
Transparency revolution: Is there bias in university admissions? Part II
David Morris has dived back into the spreadsheets to report further findings from the recent release of admissions data by UCAS, taking a look at offer gaps for Asian students and white students.
· Analysis
Five key lessons from the HEA-HEPI student experience survey
David Morris digs deeper into last week’s HEPI-HEA Student Academic Experience Survey, analysing five things for the sector to reflect on from the results.
· Data
Transparency revolution: is there bias in university admissions?
UCAS have released an unprecedented amount of data which gives detailed breakdowns across institutions of applications by sex, race and economic status. There were hopes that it might settle the question about bias in ad
· Policy Watch
White Paper reforms will reach into Wales, whether welcome or not
With a White Paper in England and a Bill now before the UK Parliament, David Morris asks what the implications are for Welsh higher education and its own debate about the future of its sector.
· Analysis
Avoiding failure: policymaking lessons for the HE reforms
Using Anthony King and Ivor Crewe’s ‘The Blunders of Our Governments’ as a guide, David Morris maps out some risk prevention options for delivering the higher education reforms.
· Policy Watch
TEF and tuition fees – myths and reality
The debate over tuition fees is slowly warming up again, but what’s really going on? David Morris has crunched the numbers about the TEF’s potential to allow universities to raise fees.
· Live
Live: The Higher Education and Research Bill
A Higher Education and Research Bill is being introduced to Parliament today. We’ll be tracking all the developments as well as setting the new Bill in context of HE policy history.
With Mark Leach
· Policy Watch
The HE Bill in Parliament – Process and Procedure
We break down the notoriously archaic procedures of Parliament, and try to anticipate where the hotspots for a HE Bill might be.
· Analysis
Does the White Paper make Watson’s eight ‘category mistakes’?
As the first in a series of pieces that will evaluate the White Paper against criteria for effective policy making, we ask, have David Watson’s famous eight category mistakes been made or avoided?
· Policy Watch
The politics of data collection: HESA publishes DLHE consultation
A first look at the new HESA consultation on the future of graduate outcomes data raises questions about the place that data occupies in political debates about higher education.
· Comment
What if there isn’t a skills deficit?
David Morris argues that not far in the future, the sector may not be able to rely on old assumptions about their role in driving skills and so need to start thinking now about how universities should to adapt to shiftin
· Policy Watch
Super Thursday and what it might mean for universities
David Morris examines what the devolved election results could mean for higher education across the UK.
· Data
Teaching and research: A zero-sum game?
There is a long history of research investigating the relationship between research aptitude and teaching ability, within both an individual and collective context. In the aftermath of the 2014 REF, David Morris digs mor
· Data
The REF results vs VC pay
A quick look at what happens when you plot the results of #REF2014 against vice chancellor pay in the UK.
With Mark Leach