Saturday 17 October 2026

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.

2023

  • 18 December 2023We wish you a merry TEFmasThinking radically in 2024 · Graduate route arguments briefing · Pain both waysSubscribers
  • 11 December 2023Gender-based violence – from data to actionShould the drop in applications worry universities? · Another year to get your REF submission in · Beat the cheatsSubscribers
  • 4 December 2023Let’s make a TEFmas miracleA minimum service from DfE · Student income and expenditureSubscribers
  • 27 November 2023Systematic reviewGo hard or go home · Do they stay or do they go?Subscribers
  • 20 November 2023Back to the data futureBe not of good cheer · Quality does take timeSubscribers
  • 13 November 2023REF impactFood insecurity · Theories of change · State of the unionSubscribers
  • 6 November 2023The graduate premiumIn praise of small policy · UKRI row continuesSubscribers
  • 30 October 2023Healthcare workforce expansionTotally sacrosanct · Quality priorities · Housing headachesSubscribers
  • 23 October 2023Technology for student successCampus protest · Skills chaos · Housing a problemSubscribers
  • 16 October 2023Is cost of living affecting belonging?Antisemitism on campus · All that glitter, not much HE goldSubscribers
  • 9 October 2023What’s Labour’s future for fees?Arif Ahmed speaks out · Standards advanced · Setting the curveSubscribers
  • 2 October 2023Students’ views of engagement analyticsA TEF crowd · Academic freedom? · Deal or no deal?Subscribers
  • 25 September 2023Looking outward – the people needs of HEThe past, present and future of TEF · Sexual misconduct prevalence pilot · What does LLE stand for?Subscribers
  • 18 September 2023Regulation in England: what now?Quality matters · Research culture wars?Subscribers
  • 11 September 2023A common causeOver the Horizon · Regulatory rethink · Cost of learningSubscribers
  • 4 September 2023It’s all coming up in 2023–24The scale of harassment · CTER takes flightSubscribers
  • 21 August 2023Results daySubscribers
  • 14 August 2023Exam results aren’t everythingNSS 2023Subscribers
  • 7 August 2023The limits of cross-subsidyTransforming international research collaboration · Dispatches from a US edtech conferenceSubscribers
  • 31 July 2023What can we honestly say to alienated students?Subscribers
  • 17 July 2023Command and controlThe keys to curriculum change · Promises promisesSubscribers
  • 10 July 2023Toxic masculinity makes us all discontentLabour is shattered · Event horizon · The mane eventSubscribers
  • 3 July 2023Summer of AIForeign policy mattersSubscribers
  • 26 June 2023Industrial disputationA tale of two student experiences · Carbon copy · Journeying onSubscribers
  • 19 June 2023A kinder, gentler, REF?Complicated foreign affairs · Loans miss the lifelong learning targetSubscribers
  • 12 June 2023We need to talk about franchisingDuty of care · Rights here rights nowSubscribers
  • 5 June 2023Disciplinary mattersDuty of care · Labour – study now, pay more later · My definition is thisSubscribers
  • 29 May 2023Freedom from and freedom toBraverman comes for dependantsSubscribers
  • 22 May 2023National Conservatism comes for universitiesInternational scale · In the line of duty of care · First, do no harmSubscribers
  • 15 May 2023Curriculum, transformedLess dependant · Regulator in the spotlight · Euro visionsSubscribers
  • 8 May 2023Labour and feesSubscribers
  • 24 April 2023Running it up the pollDisabled student commitment · Reflecting on complaints · When student engagement goes wrongSubscribers
  • 17 April 2023Does research funding need a review?Fees & funding debate reignites · Free speech and confidenceSubscribers
  • 3 April 2023Will there be a new designated quality body?It’s hard not to be EORR-ish · Consultation, or a marking boycott? Or both? · New ministerial team in ScotlandSubscribers
  • 27 March 2023The journey to a millionDevil in the detail for LLE · HESES, she says · Who teaches the teachers?Subscribers
  • 20 March 2023Has the avalanche finally arrived?Fairness and belonging · Budget days · Industrial action updateSubscribers
  • 13 March 2023Lifelong loansStability fuels innovationSubscribers
  • 6 March 2023Anything but nine to fiveA science superpower? · Inquiry into OfSSubscribers
  • 27 February 2023Radical reform, by stealthImmigration figures fallout · New duties on harassment and sexual misconduct · Horizon funding goes bye-BEIS?Subscribers
  • 20 February 2023The chatbots are coming for your students!A period of calmSubscribers
  • 13 February 2023Being real, getting realMachinery of government · Burning platform · Thirty-three LLESubscribers
  • 6 February 2023Going for growthFree speech ping pong · Extra credit · Public perceptions of universitiesSubscribers
  • 30 January 2023How was the TEF for you?Digging for a resolution · Visa seesaws · Feeding back on OfSSubscribers
  • 23 January 2023A tertiary future for all?Measuring our way to net zero · Maintenance of hardship · Antisemitism on campusSubscribers
  • 16 January 2023The numbers gameCurb your enthusiasm · Pay and pensions action continuesSubscribers
  • 9 January 2023Secrets and livesWhat we’ll be talking about in 2023Subscribers