196 pieces
Newest first, since August 2022 · page 2 of 10
· Wonk Corner
The Home Office reviews English language assessment
But it will be how it uses the findings that matters
· Wonk Corner
How will the Medical Training (Prioritisation) Bill affect universities and students?
Rushing through big changes unsurprisingly has consequences
· Policy Watch
All about Scotland’s newly passed Tertiary Education and Training Act
Now that it’s on the statute books, Michael Salmon looks at what made the final cut in Scotland’s new tertiary legislation
· Wonk Corner
The Turing scheme returns for at least one more year
Along with a few tweaks to the rules
· Policy Watch
The great UKRI budget shake-up
The next four years of research funding will be organised in a very different way. Michael Salmon and James Coe explore how
With James Coe
· Long read
Mapping how the industrial strategy is, and isn’t, showing up in HE policy
Was 2025 the year that industrial strategy became central to the higher education agenda, or is everyone just gesturing at it more? Michael Salmon weighs it up
· Wonk Corner
Understand the REF changes through the lens of money and bureaucracy
The government did say it wanted less spent not more
· Wonk Corner
Insolvency legislation “permits continued trading” if a university enters compulsory liquidation. How so?
The Commons Education Committee looks for answers, as do we
· Wonk Corner
All the higher education-relevant Home Office stats for Q3 2025
There’s new migration data out for July to September, covering student visas, dependants, graduate route, global talent, asylum claims, and student sponsorship
· Wonk Corner
Are level 6 apprenticeships next?
Universities and employers are concerned enough about further defunding to write to ministers
· Comment
A government running out of road still sets the economic weather for higher education
The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget
· Policy Watch
Labour takes steps to bring higher education and local skills closer together
New Skills England guidance provides the detail for the white paper’s vision of a coherent skills system. Michael Salmon assesses whether it could work
· Wonk Corner
“Apprenticeship units” and the LLE
Plans for two different menus of fundable courses move forward – but how will they interact?
· Comment
The white paper kept quiet on market exit
Despite previous indications that movement was afoot, the post-16 education and skills white paper had nothing to say about institutional closure. Michael Salmon tries to work out what’s changed
· Wonk Corner
FE-HE collaboration needs to be more than pointing both sectors at the same diminishing funding pot
Though it may end up being just that
· Analysis
A TNE policy primer for anyone seeking new funding streams
The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities to get stuck into transnational education. Michael Salmon unpicks the policy context
· Wonk Corner
So this is what devolved research funding looks like
A couple of recent policy announcements show how the government is attempting to navigate the niceties of regional funding distribution
· Wonk Corner
What’s the progress of the immigration white paper proposals?
It’s all gone a bit quiet
· Comment
The risk of opening a legislative backdoor into the sector’s pocket
The arguments against an international student fee levy have foundered. Michael Salmon is more worried about what it looks like in a decade’s time
· Wonk Corner
Higher education’s social licence
Why does everyone in Australian HE go on about this – and is the UK next?