Wonkhe SUs · Weekly webinars · 10 November 2026
Policy Radar – November 2026
The November Policy Radar – the Budget and EU tuition fees, ten years of the TEF and the new “incredible machine” with former TEF deputy chair Janice Kay, and IDP’s Simon Emmett on international students, visas and the levy.
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Debbie McVitty chairs the November Policy Radar, with Michael Salmon, Mack Marshall and David Kernohan. It opens with Parish News on what is happening across Wonkhe, then Michael Salmon rounds up the month in policy – John Healey’s first Budget and the prospect of EU students paying home fees under the UK–EU reset. The session then turns to the TEF, ten years on from the white paper that created it – what’s new and what’s changed in OfS’ stage two proposals, Wonkhe’s visual guide to the new system and DK’s dashboard for seeing how your institution might fare, with an interview with Janice Kay, former deputy chair of the TEF. It closes with “global reach, local impact” – the Graduate route, the Budget, the international student levy and Home Office visa refusals – and an interview with Simon Emmett, UK CEO of IDP Education.
What we cover
- Parish News – the disability inclusion series, the student feedback webinar with evasys, action learning sets and founding subscriptions to Research Agenda
- The month in policy – John Healey’s first Budget, from capital funding cuts to UKRI’s big bets
- EU tuition fees – what discounted or home fees for EU students under the UK–EU reset would mean, and how many EU students each provider has now
- The Incredible Machine – what’s new and what’s changed in OfS’ plans for the TEF, ten years on
- How ratings would work – what a silver in one category means, and how “use of skills” would be measured from Graduate Outcomes
- TEF for the rest of us – DK’s dashboard on how your institution might fare
- Janice Kay, former deputy chair of the TEF, on whether OfS can intervene more intelligently on quality
- Global reach, local impact – the Graduate route, the Budget, the international student levy and Home Office visa refusals
- Simon Emmett, UK CEO of IDP Education, on international higher education as a strategic asset for places
Things to read
- That was the wonk that was – November 2026 slides (Michael Salmon)
- Everything in the 2026 Budget for higher education and students
- The Budget – from capital funding cuts to UKRI big bets (Research Agenda)
- Who counts and who pays if EU students get home fees
- HESA Spring 2026 – student data
- OfS begins second round of consultation on future TEF quality assessments
- New TEF, new data, same issues
- TEF for the rest of us
- The incredible machine? Our visual guide to the TEF
- Jo Johnson – “I still believe that student choice must be the main organising principle for higher education”
- OfS wants to intervene more strongly on quality. Can it intervene more intelligently?
- Universities aren’t short of data on student experience – they are lacking meaningful analysis and evaluation of what works
- International higher education is a strategic asset for the UK – universities need to realise that potential in their places
- In search of strategic alignment between student feedback insight and student success goals
- Disability expectations series – Wonkhe archive
- Policy Radar – November 2026 – slides and chat