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.

2024

• 16 December 2024Monday 16 December 2024A regulatory resetYou wouldn’t know them, they go to another uni · Silos against successSubscribers
• 9 December 2024Monday 9 December 2024Belong: students in workThe sustainability of financial sustainability · The new meritocracySubscribers
• 2 December 2024Monday 2 December 2024What are universities like?Where the loan money goes · Ups and downsSubscribers
• 25 November 2024Monday 25 November 2024Value creationStudents getting better · Home and away · Cold spotsSubscribers
• 18 November 2024Monday 18 November 2024Bold and transformative actionSubscribers
• 11 November 2024Monday 11 November 2024The quo for Labour’s quidYou read it here first · HEEL be coming round the regionSubscribers
• 4 November 2024Monday 4 November 2024Fees could riseMore radical thinking in strategic collaboration · Talking softly and carrying a big memory stickSubscribers
• 28 October 2024Monday 28 October 2024The global value of a UK degreeBudget day · Is the tide turning on university expansion? · How refreshingSubscribers
• 21 October 2024Monday 21 October 2024Growth mindsetThe skills paradoxSubscribers
• 14 October 2024Monday 14 October 2024Blowing up the REFOfS the table · 100 days of StarmerSubscribers
• 7 October 2024Monday 7 October 2024Piled high, delivered cheapSurging ahead or falling behind? · Unions and employers may agree on workload (if not pay)Subscribers
• 30 September 2024Monday 30 September 2024Blue is the warmest colourSkills shift · The Welsh commitments · A song for EuropeSubscribers
• 23 September 2024Monday 23 September 2024Efficiency is our watchwordA moveable feast · Model achievementSubscribers
• 16 September 2024Monday 16 September 2024See you in NovemberWe need to talk about workload · If you recruit them they will comeSubscribers
• 9 September 2024Monday 9 September 2024All in this togetherSecrets and friesSubscribers
• 2 September 2024Monday 2 September 2024Do the write thingSubscribers
• 19 August 2024Monday 19 August 2024What a result100 days of summerSubscribers
• 12 August 2024Monday 12 August 2024Many wrongs make a riotThe results are out · Digital transformation takes skillsSubscribers
• 5 August 2024Monday 5 August 2024New condition of registrationBreaking the cycle of student despairSubscribers
• 29 July 2024Monday 29 July 2024Fit for the futureDisorderly exit · Data-driven regulation latestSubscribers
• 22 July 2024Monday 22 July 2024Labour's legislationMajority rules · Boom boom boom bust · International foundation yearsSubscribers
• 15 July 2024Monday 15 July 2024Licence to skillKeir’s peers · Many questions · The inheritance of lossSubscribers
• 8 July 2024Monday 8 July 2024Ministering to the sectorSubscribers
• 1 July 2024Monday 1 July 2024Don't forget to voteQuality, call on me · Withers: from dithers to deliversSubscribers
• 24 June 2024Monday 24 June 2024Needs to know: devolutionStabilising the HE ship after the election · Where you live and what you learnSubscribers
• 17 June 2024Monday 17 June 2024Needs to know: student maintenanceThe manifestos and what comes next · Graduate outcomesSubscribers
• 10 June 2024Monday 10 June 2024Knowledge securityThe BTEC HE participation cliff edge · Stabilisers onSubscribers
• 3 June 2024Monday 3 June 2024Hey MickeyAfter the election · Creativity in the real worldSubscribers
• 20 May 2024Monday 20 May 2024PGT deserves a breakFinancially unsustainable · Policy and evidence in immigration · Creating the conditions for education changeSubscribers
• 13 May 2024Monday 13 May 2024Return of the MACProtesting too much? · All the things I could do · Data history, data futuresSubscribers
• 29 April 2024Monday 29 April 2024How HE shows up in party manifestosUniversities and freeports · Enterprising or over-reliant? · BalkanisationSubscribers
• 22 April 2024Monday 22 April 2024First in family studentsIn praise of… Clearing · International students get remote · Chops for breakfastSubscribers
• 15 April 2024Monday 15 April 2024Choice or voiceBeyond the quality basics · Nursing a headache · Allowances for failureSubscribers
• 8 April 2024Monday 8 April 2024Say my name, say my nameStrategic unplanning · Spun outSubscribers
• 25 March 2024Monday 25 March 2024A penny savedThinking on funding · Open for businessSubscribers
• 18 March 2024Monday 18 March 2024Australian Universities AccordOffice for Students funding review · Extremism definition · MAC and squeezeSubscribers
• 11 March 2024Monday 11 March 2024Lonely learningDisplaced universities in Ukraine · Notes from the culture warSubscribers
• 4 March 2024Monday 4 March 2024New threats to student futuresThe squeeze is on · Priority onboarding · Grady inflationSubscribers
• 26 February 2024Monday 26 February 2024Supporting education reform in UkraineA social mobility premium · They need to talk about franchising · Acting accordinglySubscribers
• 19 February 2024Monday 19 February 2024Getting out of neutralSkill and care · Size and shapeSubscribers
• 12 February 2024Monday 12 February 2024Widening access in placesThe fee also rises · Research bureaucracy · Voter IDSubscribers
• 5 February 2024Monday 5 February 2024Public sector pipelineDoes more staff make for happier students? · Sunday Times fallout · Setting out his stallSubscribers
• 29 January 2024Monday 29 January 2024The Secret Life of StudentsIt’s not fair · Compliance culture · Regulatory power(point)Subscribers
• 22 January 2024Monday 22 January 2024Take your partner by the handSystemic political failure · Admissions cycle · Presumption of partnershipSubscribers
• 15 January 2024Monday 15 January 2024Exit, pursued by a bearThe wages of dignity · Trust me, I’m a studentSubscribers
• 8 January 2024Monday 8 January 2024The secret life of studentsNot so Cleverly · Budget linesSubscribers