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.

2026

• 12 October 2026Monday 12 October 2026We’re going to need a bigger tentAcademic integrity and AI, Conservative conferenceSubscribers
• 5 October 2026Monday 5 October 2026Keeping the learning realHope again, universities later · Hope (again), MI5Subscribers
• 28 September 2026Monday 28 September 2026Conference callAre universities delivering students’ happy HEVA after? · International recruitment, graduate social mobilitySubscribers
• 21 September 2026Monday 21 September 2026Market actorsLoans, free speechSubscribers
• 14 September 2026Monday 14 September 2026It’s all about the social licenceKeeping the learning real · Quack quack oops · Future jobs, uni closuresSubscribers
• 7 September 2026Monday 7 September 2026Introducing Research AgendaWhose university is it anyway? · Burnham, SUs, Year aheadSubscribers
• 31 August 2026Monday 31 August 2026A framework for the futureSubscribers
• 24 August 2026Monday 24 August 2026The collaboration questionBut at what cost? · Lessons to be learnedSubscribers
• 17 August 2026Monday 17 August 2026Working for the weekendRecord collection · Character buildingSubscribers
• 10 August 2026Monday 10 August 2026Diamonds aren't foreverSubscribers
• 3 August 2026Monday 3 August 2026When the welcome wears offSubscribers
• 27 July 2026Monday 27 July 2026MoG the forgetful catSubscribers
• 20 July 2026Monday 20 July 2026Hail to the kingThe end of the year showSubscribers
• 13 July 2026Monday 13 July 2026Don’t pass me byThe collaboration question · UKRI won’t please everyone · Game of loansSubscribers
• 6 July 2026Monday 6 July 2026The return of glocalismDistance learning · PhD Students, Andy BurnhamSubscribers
• 29 June 2026Monday 29 June 2026A Ministry for ManchesterismMake it all make sense · Burnham, IFS on value of HESubscribers
• 22 June 2026Monday 22 June 2026A new path for BritainIs it worth it? · Minimum entry, Governance, Working class boys and girlsSubscribers
• 15 June 2026Monday 15 June 2026Feedback for student successAn in-tray not to envy · Go ahead, maker my field · TEF, student experience, demographicsSubscribers
• 8 June 2026Monday 8 June 2026Demography isn’t densityThe odd couple · Public opinion, missing middleSubscribers
• 1 June 2026Monday 1 June 2026Making the International Education Strategy workIs all growth good? · Race and belonging · Cuts, mergers, belonging, friendship and student experienceSubscribers
• 26 May 2026Tuesday 26 May 2026Reset the social contractLLE latest, the Milburn review & picks of the weekSubscribers
• 18 May 2026Monday 18 May 2026Unstrategic and short on prioritiesBurn it all down · Bangs for buckSubscribers
• 11 May 2026Monday 11 May 2026Democracy in actionSans frontières, sans fundingSubscribers
• 4 May 2026Monday 4 May 2026Election specialAbsolutely wrongSubscribers
• 27 April 2026Monday 27 April 2026The AI generation still needs educationSubscribers
• 20 April 2026Monday 20 April 2026Blood, sweat, toil, and arrearsAll is fair in love and regulation · Pool position · Spare a dime?Subscribers
• 13 April 2026Monday 13 April 2026Technical debtPut a donk on itSubscribers
• 30 March 2026Monday 30 March 2026Behind the governance blindsWeak-end deliverySubscribers
• 23 March 2026Monday 23 March 2026When learning is optionalOne NEET trickSubscribers
• 16 March 2026Monday 16 March 2026Learning to be human (in real time)Quite a fix to be in · Re-fee-setSubscribers
• 9 March 2026Monday 9 March 2026Better regulation through clarityGoverning AI in educationSubscribers
• 2 March 2026Monday 2 March 2026TNE dreams, so hard to beatForty shades of GreenSubscribers
• 23 February 2026Monday 23 February 2026Human in the leadLoan rangers · Counterintuitive staffing trendsSubscribers
• 16 February 2026Monday 16 February 2026Things can get better, but it’s not inevitableThe defence of the realm · Small prophets?Subscribers
• 9 February 2026Monday 9 February 2026Is the struggle still real?Gamekeeper turned poacher · Hello, is it UKRI you’re looking for? · Unwelcome visitorsSubscribers
• 2 February 2026Monday 2 February 2026The sector’s financesNorth of 49Subscribers
• 26 January 2026Monday 26 January 2026Learning to be human: show what we knowA competitive offer? · End of CycleSubscribers
• 19 January 2026Monday 19 January 2026Governing the sector’s financesNo Reform for HE · AI calls us to ask bigger questionsSubscribers
• 12 January 2026Monday 12 January 2026The Mouse trapAfter the stormSubscribers
• 5 January 2026Monday 5 January 2026An alterna-TEF New Year’s messagePulling focus · Framework in progressSubscribers