The winning move is not to play: Game Theory and the Willetts funding model

David Kernohan

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The winning move is not to play: Game Theory and the Willetts funding model

by David Kernohan

25/02/11

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MarginCore and the dumb hand of the market

by David Kernohan

8/04/11

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Do Vice Chancellors love Cox? The ‘celebrity academic’ – a statistical analysis

by David Kernohan

11/04/11

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Do Vice Chancellors love Cox? The 'celebrity academic' – a statistical analysis

by David Kernohan

11/04/11

6

The student as labourer-consumer

by David Kernohan

30/05/11

I want you to know it was I who discovered your secret – R.A.B.

by David Kernohan

15/06/11

5

AAB or AARGH? A schoolboy funding error in the HE White Paper

by David Kernohan

28/06/11

The AAB Opportunity: Anti-competitive?

by David Kernohan

15/07/11

MarginCore – the binary divide

by David Kernohan

7/03/12

1

Highly provisional provision

by David Kernohan

29/03/12

Let’s MOOC the midnight bell

by David Kernohan

18/09/12

3

Powder and the mirror: policy, fiction and storytelling

by David Kernohan

12/12/12

We’re under fifteen feet of pure white snow

by David Kernohan

12/03/13

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Review: IPPR’s Critical Path

by David Kernohan

10/06/13

5

Reinventing universities in the media

by David Kernohan

13/01/15

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Green Party 2015 higher education policies

by David Kernohan

19/01/15

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Election Night: HE viewing guide

by David Kernohan

6/05/15

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People in higher education: Professor Sally Brown, teaching excellence and a little bit of history

by David Kernohan

30/10/15

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The TEF’s first assessment

by David Kernohan

6/11/15

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The Green Paper and devolution

by David Kernohan

7/11/15

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CETLs and the ghosts of teaching excellence past

by David Kernohan

13/11/15

1

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“As of ill parody” – re-assembling the shattered future of UK HE [April Fool]

by David Kernohan

1/04/16

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TEF results – Who moved up and who fell down?

by David Kernohan

22/06/17

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How to read: Michael Barber’s UUK speech

by David Kernohan

23/06/17

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Fun with flags (pt 2): How did metrics work in TEF outcomes?

by David Kernohan

26/06/17

2

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Employment and earnings – how do TEF and LEO compare?

by David Kernohan

30/06/17

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IFS on the past, present and future of student debt

by David Kernohan

5/07/17

4

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Status anxiety – how often did universities cite league tables in TEF submissions?

by David Kernohan

7/07/17

2

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(No longer) Supporting Professionalism in Admissions?

by David Kernohan

17/07/17

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Jo Johnson defends HE funding system in pre-summer speech

by Mark Leach

20/07/17

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Dearing in the House – twenty years on

by David Kernohan

24/07/17

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Fun with Statutory Instruments: the process of inflationary fee rises

by David Kernohan

31/07/17

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A beginner’s guide to Open Access

by Graham Steel

15/08/17

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UEAlchemy: TEF appeal is successful for one university

by David Kernohan

15/08/17

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REF2021: much still to be decided

by David Kernohan

1/09/17

3

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Edtech? It’s all about policy!

by David Kernohan

6/09/17

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Learning TEF lessons

by Catherine Boyd

7/09/17

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A £7,500 fee cap? How a headline changed everything

by David Kernohan

18/09/17

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Dangerous acts and dogs’ breakfasts

by David Kernohan

22/09/17

1

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Is the “major” review of HE Commission:Impossible?

by Mark Leach

4/10/17

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A game of risk

by David Kernohan

19/10/17

3

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Is TEF making a difference to early indications of applicant interest?

by David Kernohan

3/11/17

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Validation arrangements continue to be risky business

by Catherine Boyd

20/11/17

4

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Fairness, parity, clarity: a new social contract for Scottish students

by David Kernohan

21/11/17

6

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The industrial strategy white paper digested

by David Kernohan

27/11/17

2

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Opening textbooks

by David Kernohan

8/12/17

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How much will OfS cost institutions?

by David Kernohan

13/12/17

3

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A bushel and a peck – OfS subscription fees again

by David Kernohan

18/12/17

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Blockchain – don’t ask how, ask why

by David Kernohan

21/12/17

7

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How to lose credibility and alienate students

by David Kernohan

8/01/18

2

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What’s in Sam Gyimah’s in-tray?

by David Kernohan

9/01/18

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Open data is about more than a licence

by David Kernohan

12/01/18

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What happens when an alternative provider falls into administration?

by Catherine Boyd

15/01/18

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Better research through better infrastructure

by David Kernohan

22/01/18

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Teaching quality enhancement in England: the commemorative teatowel

by David Kernohan

29/01/18

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Institutional UCAS end of cycle 2017 statistics – visualised

by Arthi Nachiappan

29/01/18

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Understanding the last UCAS cycle in depth

by David Kernohan

5/02/18

8

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Confidence and support – the life of an “only student”

by David Kernohan

12/02/18

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How will OfS do policy when its levers are broken?

by David Kernohan

12/02/18

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Major reviews of higher education through history

by David Kernohan

18/02/18

1

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The terms of the post-18 education and funding review digested

by Ant Bagshaw

19/02/18

4

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Would subject-based fees stem arts provision?

by David Kernohan

26/02/18

1

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Regulatory framework: every document

by David Kernohan

28/02/18

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OfS subscription fees – you’ve got trouble

by David Kernohan

28/02/18

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A beginner’s guide to the USS dispute

by David Kernohan

5/03/18

2

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The public accounts committee report on alternative providers

by David Kernohan

7/03/18

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A first look at the latest LEO data

by Catherine Boyd

15/03/18

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Parts of the whole: LEO and the value of public value

by David Kernohan

19/03/18

1

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The move to open data in higher education

by Arthi Nachiappan

26/03/18

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Assessing the realities of student income and expenditure

by David Kernohan

26/03/18

1

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Comparing widening participation at public and alternative HE providers

by David Kernohan

28/03/18

5

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Reading the small print – OfS terms and conditions of funding

by David Kernohan

9/04/18

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Digging beneath the gender pay gap headlines

by Louis Coiffait

9/04/18

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Hungry like the Woolf? – the first blockchain university

by David Kernohan

13/04/18

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Supporting student choices with subject-level data

by David Kernohan

16/04/18

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Why sharing is a key part of academic practice

by David Kernohan

16/04/18

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Graduate Labour Market Survey 2017

by David Kernohan

25/04/18

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The Office for Students’ business plan

by David Kernohan

1/05/18

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After the goldrush: 30 years of teaching quality enhancement

by David Kernohan

11/05/18

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Humanities by the numbers

by David Kernohan

14/05/18

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TEF: The Incredible Machine remixed

by Ant Bagshaw

21/05/18

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Society or selection – what really makes up the Oxford collage?

by David Kernohan

23/05/18

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Postgraduate LEO – 2018 edition

by David Kernohan

25/05/18

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If two were three? TEF fan fiction

by David Kernohan

6/06/18

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Fun with flags – TEF3 style

by David Kernohan

6/06/18

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Research and innovation, the Welsh way

by David Kernohan

7/06/18

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Bang! – grade inflation in TEF3

by David Kernohan

13/06/18

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LEO’s star ascendant in 2018

by David Kernohan

21/06/18

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Benchmarking ethnicity in TEF

by David Kernohan

25/06/18

2

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

by David Kernohan

29/06/18

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Proceed with caution

LIVE: Proceed With Caution, London

by David Kernohan

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3/07/18

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Where are the mature students in 2017?

by David Kernohan

5/07/18

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Destination of Leavers from HE – benchmarked

by David Kernohan

9/07/18

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Three stories from the UCAS June deadline data

by David Kernohan

12/07/18

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Office for Students rewrites sector history

by David Kernohan

20/07/18

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What we now know about REF2021

by David Kernohan

23/07/18

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The strange tale of the University of London Bill

by David Kernohan

26/07/18

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NSS2018 – feeling the heat?

by David Kernohan

27/07/18

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