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Understanding the commuter student paradox

by Martin Lowe

23/04/25

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Employers will increasingly focus on graduates’ skills over technical knowledge

by Stephen Isherwood

23/04/25

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Who’s really falling behind within boys’ underachievement?

by Nikolai Elkins

22/04/25

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What if students were the architects of their own success?

by Dáire Martin

22/04/25

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Unclear legal duties can leave university trustees exposed when things go wrong

by Neil Smyth

17/04/25

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Inclusivity beyond the buzzwords

by Angelos Bakogiannis

17/04/25

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Rethinking our approach to maths anxiety

by Anthea Cowen

17/04/25

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Storytelling and arts education can drive social change

by Sunday Blake

16/04/25

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Extracurricular activities have big benefits for students

by Robert Phillips

16/04/25

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With the power of knowledge – for the world

by Jim Dickinson

15/04/25

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Oral histories of Ukrainian refugees in English higher education

by Iryna Kushnir

15/04/25

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Sexual misconduct data is coming – here’s what universities should do to prepare

by Adam Waddingham

15/04/25

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How (and why) to get beyond traditional essays

by Madhavi Dubey

15/04/25

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Whose job is saving the planet anyway?

by Harrison Stewart

14/04/25

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Trusting students and reducing barriers by abolishing penalties for late work

by Antony Moss

14/04/25

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Supporting disabled women in academia matters. Here’s why

by Meredith Wilkinson

13/04/25

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Everyone can play a role in removing barriers for autistic colleagues

by Hannah Breslin

12/04/25

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The value of the classroom in building belonging for commuter students

by Kulvinder Singh

11/04/25

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Higher education postcard: UWE Bristol

by Hugh Jones

11/04/25

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Communicate, repeat and compensate – OfS issues principles over industrial action

by Jim Dickinson

10/04/25

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Effective academic support requires good data transparency

by Rachel Maxwell

10/04/25

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The power of pre-arrival student questionnaires

by Michelle Morgan

10/04/25

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Explaining Sussex v the Office for Students

by Jim Dickinson

9/04/25

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Portability within REF remains key to fairness

by Maria Delgado

9/04/25

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This is what greater collaboration between further and higher education in England should look like

by Sam Parrett

9/04/25

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Regulating partnership provision can help everyone

by Alex Proudfoot

8/04/25

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It’s students that suffer when those supposed to protect them fail

by Jim Dickinson

7/04/25

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An end to sticking plaster politics? Why the government needs to use its upcoming white paper to take a different approach to immigration

by Harry Anderson

7/04/25

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R&D spending brings the era of strategic ambiguity to an end

by James Coe

7/04/25

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Young people from deprived areas can’t afford to consider university

by David Kernohan

7/04/25

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The politics of universities, defence, and R&D spending

by Jess Lister

7/04/25

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OfS insight on institutional closure lacks a firm statutory foundation

by Matthew Howling

6/04/25

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Building a public transport agenda for commuter students

by Joel Dowson

4/04/25

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Thirty ways for DfE to deliver the manifesto and raise the standards of teaching

by Jim Dickinson

4/04/25

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Higher education postcard: statuary

by Hugh Jones

4/04/25

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The UPP Foundation is launching a new inquiry into widening participation to support the government’s opportunity mission

by Richard Brabner

3/04/25

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Students can make a real difference to educational opportunity in their regions through tutoring

by Stacie Bond

3/04/25

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When tuition fee payments are suspended, what happens to students left behind?

by Charlotte Corrish

2/04/25

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing – but foresight is better

by Jim Dickinson

2/04/25

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Effective regulation requires a degree of trust

by Jim Dickinson

31/03/25

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DfE and OfS are running out of road on regulating a “free market” effectively

by Jim Dickinson

31/03/25

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Five regulatory process points you may have missed from the University of Sussex decision

by David Kernohan

29/03/25

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The difference between commuting by choice versus necessity

by Elise Thornton

28/03/25

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Higher education postcard: New College, Oxford

by Hugh Jones

28/03/25

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In the USA, universities are under attack on multiple fronts

by Alistair Jarvis

27/03/25

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We can all share the credit

by Helena Vine

27/03/25

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Government economic policy depends on a healthily diverse higher education ecosystem

by Dana Gamble

26/03/25

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Professional services staff need equal recognition – visibility in sector data would be a good start

by Claire Toogood

26/03/25

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Student experience is becoming more transactional – but that doesn’t make it less meaningful

by Sam Sanders

25/03/25

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Any possible tertiary future for England’s post-18 system must lean into college-based HE

by Andy Forbes

25/03/25

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How do you get from skills planning to effective learning provision?

by Elizabeth Shevlin

24/03/25

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What the UK can learn from Scotland’s tertiary pathfinder experiments

by David Kernohan

24/03/25

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Higher education postcard: Purdue University

by Hugh Jones

21/03/25

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Heat networks could help institutions meet net zero targets

by Nick Helm

20/03/25

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What women experience in the university estates professions

by Jane Harrison-White

20/03/25

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Research funding won’t redistribute itself

by James Coe

19/03/25

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Reframing the commute

by Emma Maslin

19/03/25

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Breaking out of Bergentown – the case for hope in higher education

by Mark Peace

18/03/25

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Should higher education be thinking in terms of evolution or transformation?

by Debbie McVitty

17/03/25

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You can’t change the design of a plane while it’s in flight

by Jim Dickinson

17/03/25

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Games and their cheat codes can show universities how to unlock new purpose

by Rosie Bryce

14/03/25

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Higher education postcard: Oxford Brookes University

by Hugh Jones

14/03/25

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University shouldn’t just postpone cliff edges for care experienced students

by Sunday Blake

14/03/25

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Diversifying medicine by widening participation

by Brigit McWade

13/03/25

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Making space for commuter students

by Susan Preston

12/03/25

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Trust, creativity, and collaboration are what leads to impact in the arts

by Amer Alwarea

11/03/25

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How does the higher education sector sustain digital transformation in tough times?

by Debbie McVitty

10/03/25

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How is artificial intelligence actually being used in higher education?

by Sue Attewell

10/03/25

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A proper review of student maintenance is now long overdue

by Jim Dickinson

10/03/25

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Why do we punish low-income students for entering education?

by Antony Moss

10/03/25

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Apprenticeships are not an “alternative” to uni, they’re alt-uni

by Andrew Bolt

7/03/25

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Higher education postcard: Nalanda

by Hugh Jones

7/03/25

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Navigating the path to higher education after local authority care

by Omar Khan

6/03/25

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Resilience is a matter of national health

by Jill Morgan

6/03/25

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Supporting commuter students with the right information

by Susan Kenyon

5/03/25

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The case against impartial university teaching

by Sunny Dhillon

5/03/25

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Ramadan should matter to higher education

by Louise Taylor

4/03/25

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How R&D creates new skills and can jump start the economy

by James Coe

3/03/25

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Policy change can help manage the demand for graduate knowledge and skills

by Chris Millward

3/03/25

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The best and most rewarding study time possible

by Jim Dickinson

1/03/25

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Higher education postcard: the university court

by Hugh Jones

28/02/25

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Supporting higher education’s emerging leaders

by Zoë Allman

28/02/25

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We need to recognise the importance of maintenance too

by James Coe

27/02/25

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The polycrisis needs you

by Mira Vogel

27/02/25

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Students making changes on transport

by Molly Pemberton

26/02/25

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The importance of consequential feedback

by Kathleen M Quinlan

25/02/25

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The UK-Ukraine 100 year partnership and its commitment to educational leadership

by Bo Kelestyn

24/02/25

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Research supervision in the context of REF – time for a step change?

by Karen Clegg

24/02/25

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Registrars assembling – the history of the Association of Heads of University Administration

by Paul Greatrix

21/02/25

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Five keys to success in Evaluation Capacity Building for widening participation

by Matthew Pawelski

21/02/25

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Higher education postcard: Al-Azhar University

by Hugh Jones

21/02/25

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Student mental health difficulties are on the rise, and so are inequalities

by Omar Khan

20/02/25

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What’s next in equality of opportunity evaluation?

by Julian Crockford

20/02/25

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The government’s in a pickle over fees and funding

by Jim Dickinson

20/02/25

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How we shifted institutional thinking about commuter students

by Val Yates

19/02/25

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There are real people underneath the labels we attach

by Madhavi Dubey

19/02/25

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Lessons from Australia on how to do R&D consultations well

by James Coe

18/02/25

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More engineering applications don’t make for more engineers

by Johnny Rich

18/02/25

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A sea change in student partnership

by Simon Varwell

18/02/25

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Competition law is a constraint to collaboration in HE but it need not be an impediment

by Kate Newman

17/02/25

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