Friday Review

Weekly · Friday lunchtimes

What you need to know about the week just gone – the developments that mattered, and the analysis that explains them.

Every review, as it landed in inboxes. See what the Friday Review includes.

2025

• 19 December 2025Friday 19 December 2025Scotland looks to the futureUKRI shakes up its budget · Back in Erasmus+ · And everything elseSubscribers
• 12 December 2025Friday 12 December 2025Franchising “crackdown”Pastures new · Explain your thinking · University landsSubscribers
• 5 December 2025Friday 5 December 2025Responding to financial pressureBallot miss · AI to save the REF? · Finance data updateSubscribers
• 28 November 2025Friday 28 November 2025The return of The Secret Life of StudentsExit nerves · Dundee funding strings · Quick hitsSubscribers
• 21 November 2025Friday 21 November 2025Postgraduate taughtTough crowd · OfS publications round-up · Scotland tertiary billSubscribers
• 14 November 2025Friday 14 November 2025Levy debatesBrit-ish bake off · Studying businessSubscribers
• 7 November 2025Friday 7 November 2025New curriculum incomingSubscribers
• 31 October 2025Friday 31 October 2025Budget bounceMind that gap · Go for growthSubscribers
• 24 October 2025Friday 24 October 2025Funding argumentsSubscribers
• 17 October 2025Friday 17 October 2025Graduate route changeThe risks of disorderly exit · Graduate jobs · Domestic productsSubscribers
• 10 October 2025Friday 10 October 2025Go for TNEStarmer on student protestSubscribers
• 3 October 2025Friday 3 October 2025A new visionAlphabet soup · Spinning aroundSubscribers
• 26 September 2025Friday 26 September 2025Scottish financial sustainabilityElsewhere in Scotland · KEF-tastic · Levy schmevySubscribers
• 19 September 2025Friday 19 September 2025Department to departmentStudent pollingSubscribers
• 12 September 2025Friday 12 September 2025Ballot’s backUCAS figures · Digital snapshot · Student rentalsSubscribers
• 5 September 2025Friday 5 September 2025Hostile email environmentTEF teethSubscribers
• 22 August 2025Friday 22 August 2025They just don’t understandSFC says no · Latest student visa stats · Getting registeredSubscribers
• 8 August 2025Friday 8 August 2025Results day in ScotlandHappy B3 day to you · Validation investigation · Medr by numbersSubscribers
• 1 August 2025Friday 1 August 2025Widening participation: EnglandWidening access: Scotland · Research England institutional allocations · Get your LLE applications inSubscribers
• 25 July 2025Friday 25 July 2025Franchising consultationResearch funding and data · Intensive outreachSubscribers
• 18 July 2025Friday 18 July 2025AI and misconductLabour vs Labour · Reading the annual reportsSubscribers
• 11 July 2025Friday 11 July 2025How applicants are feelingPreparing for insolvencies · Heading to a ballot?Subscribers
• 4 July 2025Friday 4 July 2025Labour’s NHS planMore international student pushback · Research freezes · Student loan sumsSubscribers
• 27 June 2025Friday 27 June 2025More evidenceA new mission · Further support for Dundee · Free speech detailsSubscribers
• 20 June 2025Friday 20 June 2025Dundee falloutThis week’s stats · Medr gets planningSubscribers
• 13 June 2025Friday 13 June 2025MPs take an interestREF: organisations not people · Student academic experience · Social mobilitySubscribers
• 6 June 2025Friday 6 June 2025Efficiency, transformation… collaborationGoing regional · Graduate premium under fire · A register of university spin-outsSubscribers
• 30 May 2025Friday 30 May 2025High cost, reduced budgetsRegulation via graduate earnings · Axe falls on level 7 apprenticeships · Dey of reckoningSubscribers
• 23 May 2025Friday 23 May 2025Strategic reductionsStudent suicide review · More international statsSubscribers
• 16 May 2025Friday 16 May 2025The NAO reviews UKRIGo big or go Holmes · Medr on the dancefloorSubscribers
• 9 May 2025Friday 9 May 2025Cuts across the boardThe Trump effect · International students and economic valueSubscribers
• 2 May 2025Friday 2 May 2025Student complaints, reviewedNew franchising figures · Research systems, worldwide · Student mobilitySubscribers
• 25 April 2025Friday 25 April 2025Tap turned offWho doesn’t love context?Subscribers
• 11 April 2025Friday 11 April 2025Higher education funding in ParliamentOfS on the marking boycott · Sussex free speech falloutSubscribers
• 4 April 2025Friday 4 April 2025UKRI funding settlementRegrets, I’ve had a few · International students and asylum claims · SFC allocationsSubscribers
• 28 March 2025Friday 28 March 2025Franchising falloutSpin-outs, reviewed · Scotland’s funding systemSubscribers
• 21 March 2025Friday 21 March 2025University start-ups campaignKeeping an eye on research · Support for DundeeSubscribers
• 14 March 2025Friday 14 March 2025Where research funding goesDundee · Medr’s first planSubscribers
• 7 March 2025Friday 7 March 2025Edward Peck for OfS chairIndustrial relations · HE reform in WalesSubscribers
• 28 February 2025Friday 28 February 2025TEF, reviewedDon’t call it a bailout · AI useSubscribers
• 21 February 2025Friday 21 February 2025Regulation pushbackAttitudes to international students · Cold spots · Student mental healthSubscribers
• 14 February 2025Friday 14 February 2025Spending reviewSkills news · Leadership framework · What worksSubscribers
• 7 February 2025Friday 7 February 2025Supporting students in distressWelsh government and Medr · New powers for the SFC · Teachers’ Pension SchemeSubscribers
• 31 January 2025Friday 31 January 2025Staff in higher educationData Futures, reviewed · Campus encampments · Northern Ireland student maintenanceSubscribers
• 24 January 2025Friday 24 January 2025The funding envelopeCare leavers and estranged students · Employment rights · Politics and international relationsSubscribers
• 17 January 2025Friday 17 January 2025Regional access gapsREF updates · Same-y accommodationSubscribers
• 10 January 2025Friday 10 January 2025Loans not grantsConsidering intervention · International applications · Degrees vs apprenticeshipsSubscribers
• 3 January 2025Friday 3 January 2025Looking forward to 2025New year honours · Christmas media round-upSubscribers