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.

2025

• 15 December 2025Monday 15 December 2025There’s always next yearEnd of cycleSubscribers
• 8 December 2025Monday 8 December 2025Quality rubber meets regulatory roadTown and out · REF unpausedSubscribers
• 1 December 2025Monday 1 December 2025Learning to be humanBudget round up · Howells’ moving castleSubscribers
• 24 November 2025Monday 24 November 2025Budget bluesLocal developmentsSubscribers
• 17 November 2025Monday 17 November 2025Reform-curiousNational assetSubscribers
• 10 November 2025Monday 10 November 2025Back to the futureBeyond efficiency · Mutant algorithm · Alternative forecastsSubscribers
• 3 November 2025Monday 3 November 2025Change is gonna comeTime of your HEIF · Renters’ riot actSubscribers
• 27 October 2025Monday 27 October 2025That was the white paper that wasMedr of factSubscribers
• 20 October 2025Monday 20 October 2025Get rich quickThe post-16 white paper) is really hereSubscribers
• 13 October 2025Monday 13 October 2025Post-16 education and skillsAccess still needs workSubscribers
• 6 October 2025Monday 6 October 2025Goals, goals, goalsThe same hymn sheetSubscribers
• 29 September 2025Monday 29 September 2025Working in HE in tough timesGerry and the policymakers · Report without supportSubscribers
• 22 September 2025Monday 22 September 2025Is it TEF enough?When the seagulls follow the brawler · Accountability redefinedSubscribers
• 15 September 2025Monday 15 September 2025How to get away with mergerSubscribers
• 8 September 2025Monday 8 September 2025Here’s one we made earlierPause for REF thoughtSubscribers
• 1 September 2025Monday 1 September 2025It’s all coming up in 2025–26The future of governanceSubscribers
• 18 August 2025Monday 18 August 2025Heatwave clearingSubscribers
• 11 August 2025Monday 11 August 2025Leadership diversity mattersSubscribers
• 4 August 2025Monday 4 August 2025The use of expertsSubscribers
• 28 July 2025Monday 28 July 2025What AI did on my holidaysSubscribers
• 21 July 2025Monday 21 July 2025Radical collaboration: a playbookREF will tear us apart · Ins and outsSubscribers
• 14 July 2025Monday 14 July 2025Can “civic” survive?Once in a lifetime · Survey vs surveySubscribers
• 7 July 2025Monday 7 July 2025Doing better, getting betterGetting in and getting on · £100m don’t come for freeSubscribers
• 30 June 2025Monday 30 June 2025Austerity experienceThe return of the cashpoint campus · Knowing their placeSubscribers
• 23 June 2025Monday 23 June 2025Twenty-eight years laterBlurred lines · Industrial strategy incomingSubscribers
• 16 June 2025Monday 16 June 2025We didn't sign up for thisStill no money leftSubscribers
• 9 June 2025Monday 9 June 2025Tooling up for the new economic thinkingSpending review · An agenda for commuter students · Ambition aggregationSubscribers
• 2 June 2025Monday 2 June 2025The new era starts nowWhat’s the rush?Subscribers
• 19 May 2025Monday 19 May 2025Introducing The Post-18 ProjectLight the white touchpaper · Ten-year R&D budgets · Fish and bargaining chipsSubscribers
• 12 May 2025Monday 12 May 2025Taking more control backThe value is in the connectionsSubscribers
• 28 April 2025Monday 28 April 2025Latest from Belong – student healthA bit of context · What goes on tourSubscribers
• 7 April 2025Monday 7 April 2025No more easy choicesProtection or suggestion? · Widening participation, narrowing gapsSubscribers
• 31 March 2025Monday 31 March 2025Freedom at any cost?The swinging sixSubscribers
• 24 March 2025Monday 24 March 2025Are they really that surprised?We should all be tertiary pathfinders · Spring forward, leap back · Size and shapeSubscribers
• 17 March 2025Monday 17 March 2025Evolution or transformationSubscribers
• 10 March 2025Monday 10 March 2025Pound out of pocketPeck to be OfS chairSubscribers
• 3 March 2025Monday 3 March 2025From knowledge to skillsLoan repayment rates don’t measure teaching quality · Sector-friendly appointments · Culture clubsSubscribers
• 24 February 2025Monday 24 February 2025The flexibility trapThe capital of WalesSubscribers
• 17 February 2025Monday 17 February 2025Autonomy bitesBuckets of research funding · Applications up – but not from disadvantaged areasSubscribers
• 10 February 2025Monday 10 February 2025When missions collideRe-conditioned regulation · Anti-woke nonsenseSubscribers
• 3 February 2025Monday 3 February 2025Making commuter students visibleFilling their boots · Regulating the underregulated · Future-proofing student engagementSubscribers
• 27 January 2025Monday 27 January 2025Getting through another yearAnatomy of a merger · Going for growth · Coherence, or cash?Subscribers
• 20 January 2025Monday 20 January 2025A crisis of confidenceLight a fuseSubscribers
• 13 January 2025Monday 13 January 2025Adventures in advocacyFinding partnerships and validation in open data · Living Wage progress brings cheer · A principled class approach to cultural exchangeSubscribers
• 6 January 2025Monday 6 January 2025Able to deliverAll the 2025 news that’s fit to printSubscribers