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.

2022

• 19 December 2022Monday 19 December 2022What a year its beenIt’s your lettersSubscribers
• 12 December 2022Monday 12 December 2022Responsible research assessmentChange and the community · The end of NDAs · Work experience in a blended worldSubscribers
• 5 December 2022Monday 5 December 2022The future of part-time HESupporting research potential · Care experienced students · Free speech bill heads towards its endgameSubscribers
• 28 November 2022Monday 28 November 2022Raising the red lecternLearning from students – and from their data · International student stats · We’re an innovation nation nowSubscribers
• 21 November 2022Monday 21 November 2022Industrial action beginsBarber’s back · QAA goes woke · Capacity concernsSubscribers
• 14 November 2022Monday 14 November 2022UKRI breaks silence on Plan BRed boxing day · The cost of livingSubscribers
• 7 November 2022Monday 7 November 2022Funding demandCry freedom · Quality in perspective · NUS president sackedSubscribers
• 31 October 2022Monday 31 October 2022The return of austerityThe bill is back · Who’s in and who’s out · NSS changesSubscribers
• 24 October 2022Monday 24 October 2022Cutting your lossesReckoning time for regulation · It blended up OK · How do we know what students need right now?Subscribers
• 17 October 2022Monday 17 October 2022Belong from the beginningLook over there · Short cutsSubscribers
• 10 October 2022Monday 10 October 2022What measure is what mattersInternational incident · Twenty years of the quality enhancement framework · Student suicideSubscribers
• 3 October 2022Monday 3 October 2022Next conference callBelong from the beginning · OfS 3.0 · Getting in and getting onSubscribers
• 26 September 2022Monday 26 September 2022Getting organisedLiverpool bound · Trickle-down economicsSubscribers
• 12 September 2022Monday 12 September 2022Remembering Queen Elizabeth IISubscribers
• 5 September 2022Monday 5 September 2022What's next?Costs of living · Further along the horizon · OfS’ last days?Subscribers
• 22 August 2022Monday 22 August 2022A level resultsSubscribers
• 15 August 2022Monday 15 August 2022A level results weekSubscribers
• 8 August 2022Monday 8 August 2022Strongly agreeSubscribers
• 1 August 2022Monday 1 August 2022Truss on HEOfS's hot summer · Strongly agreeSubscribers
• 25 July 2022Monday 25 July 2022Quality itemSpeak your brainsSubscribers
• 18 July 2022Monday 18 July 2022Changing careersSubscribers
• 11 July 2022Monday 11 July 2022This is fineSatisfaction can include academic rigour · Pump it up · You be the judgeSubscribers
• 4 July 2022Monday 4 July 2022Wedge issuesReading the small print · A very large group complaint · New sector finance dataSubscribers
• 27 June 2022Monday 27 June 2022What do staff who teach make of technology?Chasing the talesSubscribers
• 20 June 2022Monday 20 June 2022To uni I belongRenter’s reform · Why would OfS be regulating research? · Who expected normal?Subscribers
• 13 June 2022Monday 13 June 2022A tale of two surveysMake it make common sense · Open secrets · Quality of standardsSubscribers
• 6 June 2022Monday 6 June 2022Can universities make the argument for sustainability?Levelling off?Subscribers
• 30 May 2022Monday 30 May 2022We all dig those bootsWe can’t get the material · Getting serious about skills · Care leaversSubscribers
• 23 May 2022Monday 23 May 2022“We are feeling creatures that think”This is not fine · Duty of care · REF and referentialitySubscribers
• 16 May 2022Monday 16 May 2022Hitting the buffersAfter the REF has gone · “Unmerited” crackdown · HE bills, new and oldSubscribers
• 9 May 2022Monday 9 May 2022Brace for impact (case studies)The Queen speaks · On cloud nine · Pay offeredSubscribers
• 25 April 2022Monday 25 April 2022Higher education, higher education, higher educationFiscal drag · Next steps for industrial action · APP variationSubscribers
• 11 April 2022Monday 11 April 2022Taking action on student belongingProviders close, sometimes · Graduate employment myths · Notes from the NordicsSubscribers
• 4 April 2022Monday 4 April 2022It’s your lettersBelonging from the beginning · The data burden · Benchmarks for allSubscribers
• 28 March 2022Monday 28 March 2022Working in higher educationFar from first class · Graduates pay, students don’t benefit · I see that delegate thereSubscribers
• 21 March 2022Monday 21 March 2022Research nationFull disclosure · If you go down to the woods today · A new regulatory structure is slowly emerging in WalesSubscribers
• 14 March 2022Monday 14 March 2022Absorbing the shocksMaking allowances · Everybody out?Subscribers
• 7 March 2022Monday 7 March 2022The war in UkraineThe conditions for quality · Quite the admission · Careers 2032: a roadmap for actionSubscribers
• 28 February 2022Monday 28 February 2022Market measuresFiscal illusions · Lifelong loans · PQOffSubscribers
• 21 February 2022Monday 21 February 2022Has the free speech bill been cancelled?Cometh the Augar? · The belonging puzzle · Donelan is demandingSubscribers
• 14 February 2022Monday 14 February 2022A student futures manifestoThe case for space (and place) · Is all fair in access and participation? · The return of learning gainSubscribers
• 7 February 2022Monday 7 February 2022How to do wellbeing in the new normalLevelling the land · Living black at universitySubscribers
• 31 January 2022Monday 31 January 2022International student futuresNo ESG, no capital · Loan repayment threshold freeze · Is there still a binary divide?Subscribers
• 24 January 2022Monday 24 January 2022Course quality and value get a rebrandStudent outcomes · A new TEF · Down in the data weedsSubscribers
• 17 January 2022Monday 17 January 2022Will universities’ civic commitments wash?Are students in danger of being spiked? · Forms, funding, and the future · Buffer overflowSubscribers
• 10 January 2022Monday 10 January 2022It's all coming upOmicroff · New NSS · Graduate prospectsSubscribers