How to become competent over competence standards

Higher education postcard: shields of empire

Get involved in our national student experience research

Glacial progress on student mental health is in sharp contrast to ministerial promises

No national academy for the mathematical sciences

Withdrawal rates are down

The Jacqui Smith doctrine

Evolution not revolution: What the UK wants from the next Horizon programme

Who should pay for relief for students and universities?

More sharp suits than a Burton’s window

Research England funding allocations, 2024-25

Wonkhe Live! September 2024

Black and Asian students experience the curriculum as less culturally sensitive

Year zero for Skills England

A strategic plan for Medr

Culture connects, and universities can help

OfS wants universities to define sexual misconduct using the language of courtrooms. Here’s the problem with that

Productivity and skills doesn’t always mean vocational and intermediate

Students should expect less of universities and more of everyone else

University survival will be pointless if students don’t

Efficiency and effectiveness are harder to find than to talk about

Could caps on international students come to the UK?

What is a registrar anyway?

Podcast: Fees and funding, ABA closure, workload

Moan moan moan

To deliver on its missions, the government must support institutional diversity

On the ABA closure, were lessons learned since GSM London’s closure in 2020?

This is what SUs (mainly in England) need to know about the new Renter’s Rights Bill

How to actually learn from student appeals

Higher education postcard: Balliol College, Oxford

Should the government get on and raise fees?

Which students are more likely to run out of food?

Here’s the latest that SUs need to know about student poverty

“Unexplained” grade inflation in 2024

Is the student grant on its way back?

Why are so few universities signing up to the Disabled Student Commitment?

What we learned about undergraduate admissions this cycle

2024 UCAS cycle, 28 days after JCQ results day

Some students are regularly skipping meals to cut costs

Principal investigators are the gatekeepers of research culture. Here’s how to better support them

Universities will be told to “double down” on sharing things

Rich men got a massive (graduate) tax cut. Can Reeves and Phillipson reverse it?

Applied Business Academy to close all higher education courses

OfS Key Performance Measures on student outcomes

How to review your SU’s code of conduct or disciplinary complaints procedure in light of new OfS regulation

Why are international PGRs so far off the policy radar?

Some student midwives are putting in 70 hours a week

UCU responds to the latest UCEA offer

Scotland publishes an action plan on student mental health

Why do we all work such long hours?

Staff are working dangerously long hours, and their employers should be concerned

Preventing staff burnout makes financial as well as compassionate sense

Is the data we offer applicants any use?

Last night a chatbot saved my strife

Housing a headache

Twenty ways to deliver on Labour’s opportunity mission by making student housing better

Higher education postcard: LSE

What HESA data can tell us about provider recruitment strategies

Podcast: Free speech, international applications, social mobility

Disabled students aren’t time travellers. And extra time isn’t yours to give

August student visa applications are down 17 per cent on last year

What happened when there were “new rules” for SUs in Scotland?

Labour’s plans for renting won’t work for students. Here’s how to fix them

The future of higher and degree apprenticeships under Labour

Here’s how to make the immigration regime better for for international students

Levers to pull to get universities to ethically invest

ESFA is to close

Access to premium AI services is a significant concern for students

We spend a lot on HE. Or do we?

The ethnicity awarding gap is getting bigger and bigger

Is higher education producing long-term sick graduates?

Changes to immigration rules represent breathtaking thoughtlessness over student poverty

Give us some credit

UCEA “full and final offer” in 2024-25 pay round, September version

Scottish government concurs with fair access report recommendations

Why are London-based students using AI more than the rest of the UK?

How to fail, with Universities UK

Would the free speech act have ushered in antisemitism?

Got any change?

What would £12,500 UG fees in England really mean?

All the top takeaways from Jisc’s student digital experience insights surveys

The SU theory of change is broken. Nudniks might fix it

Horizon association, one year on

Higher education postcard: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Podcast: Jacqui Smith, franchising, digital divide

Whose SU is it anyway?

Brace brace. Another review of quality is coming in England

Jacqui Smith goes searching for funding options in Reading

Not doing much franchising? I wouldn’t be complacent

Rising levels of home education should get the sector asking questions about access

OfS’ insight on the risks of franchising fall short at addressing the incentives

OfS student characteristics data, 2024

Students are still facing issues accessing essential digital services

International quality standards are evolving, but England is watching from the sidelines

Help yourself

Home Office reforms to English language testing will only fix one end of the problem

Live players, dead players and influencing tactics and skills

An actual, old-fashioned, bidding competition from OfS

Reasons to write for Wonkhe this year

Labour tweaks the job ad for the next UKRI chief executive