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2024

• 20 December 2024Friday 20 December 2024We wish you a merry name change……and an efficient new yearSubscribers
• 19 December 2024Thursday 19 December 2024Back to BedsUnderstanding transnational studentsSubscribers
• 18 December 2024Wednesday 18 December 2024Non-continuationThe skills and migration puzzleSubscribers
• 17 December 2024Tuesday 17 December 2024The theory of devolutionSubscribers
• 13 December 2024Friday 13 December 2024Bear in mindSubscribers
• 12 December 2024Thursday 12 December 2024Who’s eating your dinner?Focus on improvementSubscribers
• 11 December 2024Wednesday 11 December 2024Silos are holding back successSubscribers
• 10 December 2024Tuesday 10 December 2024Student transferNew science committee inquirySubscribers
• 6 December 2024Friday 6 December 2024Golden ages don't have to be in the (data) future(s)We’re getting thereSubscribers
• 5 December 2024Thursday 5 December 2024Diamond’s not foreverBudgetary shenanigansSubscribers
• 4 December 2024Wednesday 4 December 2024Imaginary student interest protectedSubscribers
• 3 December 2024Tuesday 3 December 2024Taking the registerCare and learningSubscribers
• 29 November 2024Friday 29 November 2024What goes up has come downLoans less attractiveSubscribers
• 28 November 2024Thursday 28 November 2024Fund for all the familySubscribers
• 27 November 2024Wednesday 27 November 2024Get skills and careers support workingSubscribers
• 26 November 2024Tuesday 26 November 2024PGT satisfactionSubscribers
• 22 November 2024Friday 22 November 2024If you want to view paradiseSubscribers
• 21 November 2024Thursday 21 November 2024Avoid falling behindSubscribers
• 20 November 2024Wednesday 20 November 2024The sector needs SHAPE where?We got billsSubscribers
• 19 November 2024Tuesday 19 November 2024Boomer and bustSubscribers
• 15 November 2024Friday 15 November 2024A model of financial sustainabilityPensionsSubscribers
• 14 November 2024Thursday 14 November 2024Conversation starterSubscribers
• 13 November 2024Wednesday 13 November 2024Not OK, boomersSubscribers
• 12 November 2024Tuesday 12 November 2024Radical thinkingSubscribers
• 8 November 2024Friday 8 November 2024Come to HEELLevel 7 apprenticeshipsSubscribers
• 7 November 2024Thursday 7 November 202415 October deadline“Wide-scale reform” planned for HESubscribers
• 6 November 2024Wednesday 6 November 2024More detail emerges on fee risesAll together nowSubscribers
• 5 November 2024Tuesday 5 November 2024£9,535 is the new £9,250Fees reactionSubscribers
• 1 November 2024Friday 1 November 2024Disproportionate interferenceOver and overSubscribers
• 31 October 2024Thursday 31 October 2024Budget rundownSubscribers
• 30 October 2024Wednesday 30 October 2024Pay riseContractual obligationsSubscribers
• 29 October 2024Tuesday 29 October 2024The value of historySubscribers
• 25 October 2024Friday 25 October 202442 becomes 69Market stallSubscribers
• 24 October 2024Thursday 24 October 2024Unmanaged declineOfS engagement and communicationSubscribers
• 23 October 2024Wednesday 23 October 2024Graduate route uncertainty puts off overseas studentsSubscribers
• 22 October 2024Tuesday 22 October 2024Insights from round oneStaff digital experienceSubscribers
• 18 October 2024Friday 18 October 2024Opaque and misunderstoodHome fees for Hongkongers?Subscribers
• 17 October 2024Thursday 17 October 2024The graduate labour marketSubscribers
• 16 October 2024Wednesday 16 October 2024Transformation is comingA difficult roadSubscribers
• 15 October 2024Tuesday 15 October 2024Industrial strategyUniversity impact in WalesSubscribers
• 11 October 2024Friday 11 October 2024Top of the tableMoving personal tutoring forwardSubscribers
• 10 October 2024Thursday 10 October 2024Future ready for the industrial strategyThe fate of IFaTESubscribers
• 9 October 2024Wednesday 9 October 2024Has the culture changed?Subscribers
• 8 October 2024Tuesday 8 October 2024Antisemitism educationThe government’s research interestsSubscribers
• 4 October 2024Friday 4 October 2024Flimsy chairs and excessive gradesSubscribers
• 3 October 2024Thursday 3 October 2024One day, there’ll be better newsRethinking peer review in REFSubscribers
• 2 October 2024Wednesday 2 October 2024Protecting freedom of speech at the OUStudents need several thousand poundsSubscribers
• 1 October 2024Tuesday 1 October 2024Turing, year fourSubscribers
• 27 September 2024Friday 27 September 2024Duck in heaven2 + 2 = 5Subscribers
• 26 September 2024Thursday 26 September 2024Evolution not revolutionAnother student finance planSubscribers
• 25 September 2024Wednesday 25 September 2024Skills England is here, and so is the growth and skills levyMandelson on feesSubscribers
• 24 September 2024Tuesday 24 September 2024Warm words in hot roomsMedr, they wroteSubscribers
• 20 September 2024Friday 20 September 2024Different classGraduates elevated but not criticalSubscribers
• 19 September 2024Thursday 19 September 202428 days laterCommitment to disabled studentsSubscribers
• 18 September 2024Wednesday 18 September 2024The sector loses another providerUUK on manoeuvresSubscribers
• 17 September 2024Tuesday 17 September 2024UUK blueprintInternational PGRsSubscribers
• 13 September 2024Friday 13 September 2024You call this reasonableMatch six ballsSubscribers
• 12 September 2024Thursday 12 September 2024Housing a headacheGlobal rise in at-risk academicsSubscribers
• 11 September 2024Wednesday 11 September 2024International maintenance requirements to riseThe Festival of Higher Education programme revealedSubscribers
• 10 September 2024Tuesday 10 September 2024Credit-ableSubscribers
• 6 September 2024Friday 6 September 2024You can’t beat a bit of bullishLong-term researchSubscribers
• 5 September 2024Thursday 5 September 2024Taking time to get it rightGraduates benefit the publicSubscribers
• 4 September 2024Wednesday 4 September 2024OfS data on franchisingSubscribers
• 3 September 2024Tuesday 3 September 2024Digital experiencesOfsted changesSubscribers
• 26 July 2024Friday 26 July 2024Institution overboardData dropsSubscribers
• 25 July 2024Thursday 25 July 2024Guide to safer partnershipsSubscribers
• 24 July 2024Wednesday 24 July 2024Eleven findings on B3Subscribers
• 23 July 2024Tuesday 23 July 2024Interview skillsSubscribers
• 19 July 2024Friday 19 July 2024Direct actionSubscribers
• 18 July 2024Thursday 18 July 2024Most graciousJune application stats, new personal statementsSubscribers
• 17 July 2024Wednesday 17 July 2024Skills for the King?Subscribers
• 16 July 2024Tuesday 16 July 2024Off the beaten pathwayPlans for next yearSubscribers
• 12 July 2024Friday 12 July 2024Spiked!Golden labSubscribers
• 11 July 2024Thursday 11 July 2024Student satisfaction on the riseSubscribers
• 10 July 2024Wednesday 10 July 2024Advice on partnershipsCivic 2.0Subscribers
• 9 July 2024Tuesday 9 July 2024RevampDelivery models in WalesSubscribers
• 5 July 2024Friday 5 July 2024Result!Subscribers
• 4 July 2024Thursday 4 July 2024It’s here!Final offerSubscribers
• 3 July 2024Wednesday 3 July 2024UUK reports on student drug useSubscribers
• 2 July 2024Tuesday 2 July 2024Harm reductionOn pointSubscribers
• 28 June 2024Friday 28 June 2024The cold never bothered me anywayFar from the right TRACSubscribers
• 27 June 2024Thursday 27 June 2024Changing qualitySubscribers
• 26 June 2024Wednesday 26 June 2024Machinery of funding shake upMaintenance of silenceSubscribers
• 25 June 2024Tuesday 25 June 2024To cap it allSoft targets for nursingSubscribers
• 21 June 2024Friday 21 June 2024His name is LEO and he’ll show you what you’ll earnNon-visible discriminationSubscribers
• 20 June 2024Thursday 20 June 2024You broke it, you pay for itSubscribers
• 19 June 2024Wednesday 19 June 2024Cost of living has a student choice impactSubscribers
• 18 June 2024Tuesday 18 June 2024Student civic experienceSubscribers
• 14 June 2024Friday 14 June 2024A secure future for the sector?Not as bad as it could have beenSubscribers
• 13 June 2024Thursday 13 June 2024Student Academic Experience SurveySubscribers
• 12 June 2024Wednesday 12 June 2024Low qualitySubscribers
• 11 June 2024Tuesday 11 June 202423 days to goStudying mediaSubscribers
• 7 June 2024Friday 7 June 2024No agreements over outcomesHell in a handcartSubscribers
• 6 June 2024Thursday 6 June 2024Scenario planningSubscribers
• 5 June 2024Wednesday 5 June 2024Prevent referrals riseSubscribers
• 4 June 2024Tuesday 4 June 2024Nursing ambitionsSubscribers
• 24 May 2024Friday 24 May 2024For MAC get smashedWhat goes up must come downSubscribers
• 23 May 2024Thursday 23 May 2024Snap!Subscribers
• 22 May 2024Wednesday 22 May 2024Graduate route climbdownSubscribers
• 21 May 2024Tuesday 21 May 2024Cabinet still splitBeyond the horizonSubscribers
• 17 May 2024Friday 17 May 2024Scenarios of doomSubscribers
• 16 May 2024Thursday 16 May 2024Material risk of closureLawn and orderSubscribers
• 15 May 2024Wednesday 15 May 2024Big MAC mealComplaints up againSubscribers
• 14 May 2024Tuesday 14 May 2024Harassment and free speechSubscribers
• 10 May 2024Friday 10 May 2024Scrap fees nowSubscribers
• 9 May 2024Thursday 9 May 2024Increased funding to support Jewish studentsA minimum acceptable standard of livingSubscribers
• 8 May 2024Wednesday 8 May 2024OfS to weigh in on Gaza protests?Dallali settles with NUSSubscribers
• 7 May 2024Tuesday 7 May 2024Half a billionEye in the skySubscribers
• 3 May 2024Friday 3 May 2024Protest campsSupply and demandSubscribers
• 2 May 2024Thursday 2 May 2024TEF analysisThird of students at risk of non-continuationSubscribers
• 1 May 2024Wednesday 1 May 2024Dependants declineData spring delayedSubscribers
• 30 April 2024Tuesday 30 April 2024Route and branchBlended learningSubscribers
• 26 April 2024Friday 26 April 2024Overt and covertSubscribers
• 25 April 2024Thursday 25 April 2024OfS to confirm condition of registration around sexual misconductClimate consciousSubscribers
• 24 April 2024Wednesday 24 April 2024Franchising “back door for fraudsters” left openSubscribers
• 23 April 2024Tuesday 23 April 2024Prohibitive uncertaintySubscribers
• 19 April 2024Friday 19 April 2024Slice serveClearing spaceSubscribers
• 18 April 2024Thursday 18 April 2024Remote controlSubscribers
• 17 April 2024Wednesday 17 April 2024Graduates – duvet like working from home?Subscribers
• 16 April 2024Tuesday 16 April 2024First generationSubscribers
• 12 April 2024Friday 12 April 2024Delays and failuresSubscribers
• 11 April 2024Thursday 11 April 2024Simulated nursingNon-medical helpSubscribers
• 10 April 2024Wednesday 10 April 2024A change of toneMission claritySubscribers
• 9 April 2024Tuesday 9 April 2024Quality streetSubscribers
• 28 March 2024Thursday 28 March 2024Bill collector's at my doorMore on misconductSubscribers
• 27 March 2024Wednesday 27 March 2024Elvish has just left the buildingPrimo levySubscribers
• 26 March 2024Tuesday 26 March 2024Third time’s the charmPay claimedSubscribers
• 22 March 2024Friday 22 March 2024Student interestsBig numbersSubscribers
• 21 March 2024Thursday 21 March 2024Sutton Trust call for action on regressive student finance systemSubscribers
• 20 March 2024Wednesday 20 March 2024“Frontline workers” pay boost to aid teacher recruitment?Subscribers
• 19 March 2024Tuesday 19 March 2024Post-92 pensionsSmall is beautifulSubscribers
• 15 March 2024Friday 15 March 2024Extreme cakeismOut of timeSubscribers
• 14 March 2024Thursday 14 March 2024Putting the fun back into fundingGo wellSubscribers
• 13 March 2024Wednesday 13 March 2024Return of the MACSubscribers
• 12 March 2024Tuesday 12 March 2024More pushback against OfS free speech complains schemeSubscribers
• 8 March 2024Friday 8 March 2024I have some advice for you ministerBrilliant womenSubscribers
• 7 March 2024Thursday 7 March 2024Slim pickings for the sectorFoundation year growthSubscribers
• 6 March 2024Wednesday 6 March 2024DSIT pays damages and costs to academic falsely accused by ministerFree speech responsesSubscribers
• 5 March 2024Tuesday 5 March 2024More Budget positioningSubscribers
• 1 March 2024Friday 1 March 2024The big squeezePressure onSubscribers
• 29 February 2024Thursday 29 February 2024Graduate contributionLive in fragments no longer · A complex commissionSubscribers
• 28 February 2024Wednesday 28 February 2024It’s nearly budget timeSubscribers
• 27 February 2024Tuesday 27 February 2024Starter PACSubscribers
• 23 February 2024Friday 23 February 2024Franchising investigationElection asksSubscribers
• 22 February 2024Thursday 22 February 2024Legal newsSo call me maybe (not)Subscribers
• 21 February 2024Wednesday 21 February 2024Low pay in universitiesSubscribers
• 20 February 2024Tuesday 20 February 2024Scottish budget analysisSubscribers
• 16 February 2024Friday 16 February 2024Antisemitism advisorMake placements paySubscribers
• 15 February 2024Thursday 15 February 2024January deadline applications rise among UK 18 year oldsNatasha Abrahart case appeal failsSubscribers
• 14 February 2024Wednesday 14 February 2024Scholarships show signs of successSubscribers
• 13 February 2024Tuesday 13 February 2024David Willetts’ business case revolutionSubscribers
• 9 February 2024Friday 9 February 2024Tickell me redA £1bn saving via student povertySubscribers
• 8 February 2024Thursday 8 February 2024An international education strategy for ScotlandSubscribers
• 7 February 2024Wednesday 7 February 2024Tuition fees riseUniversity: not for everyoneSubscribers
• 6 February 2024Tuesday 6 February 2024Fees and funding across the UKDavid Miller tribunalSubscribers
• 2 February 2024Friday 2 February 2024Broke and brokenSubscribers
• 1 February 2024Thursday 1 February 2024Up to the task?Subscribers
• 31 January 2024Wednesday 31 January 2024Staff data shows a growing sectorStrike impactSubscribers
• 30 January 2024Tuesday 30 January 2024Fair access in ScotlandInto the care sectorSubscribers
• 26 January 2024Friday 26 January 2024Another cut to student supportCulture futureSubscribers
• 25 January 2024Thursday 25 January 2024More complaintsNo second termSubscribers
• 24 January 2024Wednesday 24 January 2024More “boots on the ground”Subscribers
• 23 January 2024Tuesday 23 January 2024Stratified, cliquish and even intimidatingTribunal rulingSubscribers
• 19 January 2024Friday 19 January 2024A presumption to partnershipSubscribers
• 18 January 2024Thursday 18 January 2024Fraud and franchiseGrowing and shrinkingSubscribers
• 17 January 2024Wednesday 17 January 2024Number controlsGrowth in non-EU academic staffSubscribers
• 16 January 2024Tuesday 16 January 2024Franchising investigationSubscribers
• 12 January 2024Friday 12 January 2024Pakistan overtakes NigeriaSubscribers
• 11 January 2024Thursday 11 January 2024Falling shortSubscribers
• 10 January 2024Wednesday 10 January 2024Impact of cutsSubscribers
• 9 January 2024Tuesday 9 January 2024A pang of giltSubscribers