Monday Briefing

Weekly · Monday mornings

The full week ahead in HE policy – what’s coming, who’s moving, and why it matters, to set your week up properly.

Every briefing, as it landed in inboxes. See what the Monday Briefing includes.

2021

• 20 December 2021Monday 20 December 2021What will 2022 bring?It’s beginning to look a little like ChristmasSubscribers
• 13 December 2021Monday 13 December 2021Staffing universitiesPlan B · The legacy of COP26 · Sealing the cracksSubscribers
• 6 December 2021Monday 6 December 2021The state of researchLevelling up and admissions · Industrial action · Careers 2032: the next decade of careers supportSubscribers
• 29 November 2021Monday 29 November 2021Send it soaringSnakes and ladders · Pile ’em high · Omicron and onSubscribers
• 22 November 2021Monday 22 November 2021Regulators gonna regulateDecember industrial action · BTECs ride again · Lords a livelySubscribers
• 15 November 2021Monday 15 November 2021Regulatory futuresAntisemitism and IHRA · Distance learning · University of Austin?Subscribers
• 8 November 2021Monday 8 November 2021The impact of fee cutsWhat do you do when your bill doesn’t work? · Warm iron · Wales’ tertiary futureSubscribers
• 1 November 2021Monday 1 November 2021A whiter shade of policyNo AUDE-inary estates teams · Maintenance is the biggest problem · Quality consultation in WalesSubscribers
• 25 October 2021Monday 25 October 2021Hopes for the spending reviewBHM: being black in science · OfS activity · SpikedSubscribers
• 18 October 2021Monday 18 October 2021The new social mobilityThe new rules · Stock take · The bill chillSubscribers
• 11 October 2021Monday 11 October 2021Coalitions of changeIt’s fresh … exciting (on Wonkhe.com) · Libraries gave us power · Levelling up in ManchesterSubscribers
• 4 October 2021Monday 4 October 2021Now is the season of our discontentResearch allocations · Student hardshipSubscribers
• 27 September 2021Monday 27 September 2021The measure of a life well livedLabour Party conference · Reshuffle continues · You are the REFSubscribers
• 20 September 2021Monday 20 September 2021Shuffling the deckCrowdsourced U · A levelling up? · Plan CSubscribers
• 13 September 2021Monday 13 September 2021The higher education sector makes no senseWhich way now? · Access for all? · Routine maintenanceSubscribers
• 6 September 2021Monday 6 September 2021Student futuresThe Class of Covid has leaders · Another mess for USSSubscribers
• 30 August 2021Monday 30 August 2021The rise in deferralsSubscribers
• 23 August 2021Monday 23 August 2021Public engagement in pedagogyThe next five years of policy · Innovation opportunities · Annual valet-dationSubscribers
• 16 August 2021Monday 16 August 2021Long CovidA levels are now A* levelsSubscribers
• 9 August 2021Monday 9 August 2021Bumper yearDegree standards · Essay mills warning · Telling it like it isSubscribers
• 2 August 2021Monday 2 August 2021Mental healthPractically imperfect · Getting GO-ing · You had one jabSubscribers
• 26 July 2021Monday 26 July 2021Selective providers are getting more selectiveVaccine passports · Sexual misconduct · They’re immune to your consultationsSubscribers
• 19 July 2021Monday 19 July 2021NSS resultsFree speech bill · Level three fundingSubscribers
• 12 July 2021Monday 12 July 2021A world in motionChilling effects · Transfer of risk · A month to goSubscribers
• 5 July 2021Monday 5 July 2021Skills, skills, skillsCoherence and stability · Clap for bankers · Freedom to be saferSubscribers
• 28 June 2021Monday 28 June 2021Digital literacy and the curriculumCould it have been worse? · White working class · One last roarSubscribers
• 21 June 2021Monday 21 June 2021The dash for skillsCry Freedom DaySubscribers
• 14 June 2021Monday 14 June 2021Rethinking pay negotiationsStudent politics · Don’t talk about TEF · Decent jobs for allSubscribers
• 7 June 2021Monday 7 June 2021Trouble on the HorizonIt ain’t over till ... · Autumn is the hardest season · The geography of employmentSubscribers
• 31 May 2021Monday 31 May 2021Bank holiday round-upSubscribers
• 24 May 2021Monday 24 May 2021Augar response in actionResearch culture club · Pull your SOCs up · Rhodes won’t fall (for now)Subscribers
• 17 May 2021Monday 17 May 2021Controversial, unpopular – and immatureNew Education Minister for Wales · Student Futures Commission LaunchSubscribers
• 10 May 2021Monday 10 May 2021Student re-engagementQueen’s speech · A different class · Research cultureSubscribers
• 3 May 2021Monday 3 May 2021Bank holiday round-upSubscribers
• 26 April 2021Monday 26 April 2021Change we can believe inPost-qualification offers · Harassment and sexual misconduct on campus · Looking for redressSubscribers
• 19 April 2021Monday 19 April 2021The unexpected return of top up fees?The return to campus · Sexual harassment crackdown · HE in the Senedd electionsSubscribers
• 12 April 2021Monday 12 April 2021Building back higherStudent life and learning · Regulation and governance · Science, skills, and recoverySubscribers
• 5 April 2021Monday 5 April 2021The best of Wonkhe in 2021 so farSubscribers
• 29 March 2021Monday 29 March 2021Open book examEnsuring future student success · Patterns of disadvantage · Cut bureaucracy, not fundingSubscribers
• 22 March 2021Monday 22 March 2021Bog standardAdmission impossible · Who should pay for textbooks? · Harmful inconvenienceSubscribers
• 15 March 2021Monday 15 March 2021Teaching in the time of CovidThe leadership challenge · Can we have “less detriment” every year? · Slow progressSubscribers
• 8 March 2021Monday 8 March 2021Features to faultlinesUSS strikes back · Practical concernsSubscribers
• 1 March 2021Monday 1 March 2021Talking censusNo through road · Summer grades, make me feel fine · Gravity AssistSubscribers
• 22 February 2021Monday 22 February 2021Admitting Generation CovidThe chilling effect · Hymns and ARIAs · Press me notSubscribers
• 15 February 2021Monday 15 February 2021How will the term and year end?Champions of free speech · Assessing the whole research ecosystem · Oh, the places graduates go!Subscribers
• 8 February 2021Monday 8 February 2021The Incredible MachineThe expectation gap persists · The storm that came for some · Show them the moneySubscribers
• 1 February 2021Monday 1 February 2021Taking the free speech debate forwardGrade inflation · No refunds? · Diversity in the early talent pipelineSubscribers
• 25 January 2021Monday 25 January 2021The avalanche cameA skilled job? · Slash and burn · Next TEFSubscribers
• 18 January 2021Monday 18 January 2021GOVERNMENT MESSAGEInterim policy · Free at last · You may turn your papers over nowSubscribers
• 11 January 2021Monday 11 January 2021Exams cancelledStaggering off · No detriment calls intensify · New OfS chair preferred candidateSubscribers
• 4 January 2021Monday 4 January 2021Staggering into 2021Brace brace for policy · Brexit finally got done · New year’s honoursSubscribers