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And just how reliable is entry qualification data anyway?

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For the time being at least, we have notionally centre-left governments across England, Scotland and Wales.

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The Portuguese government has a phrase for the guiding thread of its higher education reform programme – "fio condutor."

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Wonkhe and IDP Education are exploring what the HE sector needs to do now to secure the success of the government’s International Education Strategy. Rachel MacSween and Debbie McVitty parse out the question of "quality"

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Wonkhe and IDP Education are exploring what the HE sector needs to do now to secure the success of the government’s International Education Strategy. Rachel MacSween and Debbie McVitty parse out the question of "quality"

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Lily Wednesday argues that so long as policy intent contradicts operational reality, international offices need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable

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Lily Wednesday argues that so long as policy intent contradicts operational reality, international offices need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable

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The data on degree outcomes gets the headlines, but Wonkhe's new Community and Policy Officer Sharanya Sivarajah argues that belonging is also shaped by who's behind the desk in the services designed to support them

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The data on degree outcomes gets the headlines, but Wonkhe's new Community and Policy Officer Sharanya Sivarajah argues that belonging is also shaped by who's behind the desk in the services designed to support them

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Pop quiz, hotshot

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Public and DfE responses have been published today

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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has referred the early years childcare market to the Competition and Markets Authority, asking it to examine hidden charges that are undermining the government's funded hours offer.

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To believe Reform is wrong is fine. To believe that voters are wrong is foolish. James Coe unpacks the new politics of Reform in local government

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To believe Reform is wrong is fine. To believe that voters are wrong is foolish. James Coe unpacks the new politics of Reform in local government

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With the UK back in Erasmus+ and a Eurovision entry doing double duty as policy argument, Maia Chankseliani asks whether the return will finally reach apprentices and vocational learners

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With the UK back in Erasmus+ and a Eurovision entry doing double duty as policy argument, Maia Chankseliani asks whether the return will finally reach apprentices and vocational learners

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The government has promised to do a lot of things with primary legislation in higher education. DK has been keeping score, and here’s what is in the "missing" bill

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The government has promised to do a lot of things with primary legislation in higher education. DK has been keeping score, and here’s what is in the "missing" bill

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Some secondary legislation has happened, and it makes a confusing funding situation slightly less confusing.

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On Day Two of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson reports from Vienna on a higher education strategy that names democracy as a core mission – and asks what happens if the populists it opposes form the next government

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On Day Two of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson reports from Vienna on a higher education strategy that names democracy as a core mission – and asks what happens if the populists it opposes form the next government

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As OfS publishes a second cut of its sexual misconduct survey, Jim Dickinson argues the data offers providers a risk-assessment framework rather than a compliance scorecard

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As OfS publishes a second cut of its sexual misconduct survey, Jim Dickinson argues the data offers providers a risk-assessment framework rather than a compliance scorecard

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Against a backdrop of the industrial strategy and UKRI’s new approach, Michael Salmon argues that perennial debates over Wales’ research system will come into sharpened focus under the next government

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Against a backdrop of the industrial strategy and UKRI’s new approach, Michael Salmon argues that perennial debates over Wales’ research system will come into sharpened focus under the next government

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OfS lost Sussex on a technicality, the lines go. Jim Dickinson sees an architecture built to deliver one answer, and a regulator that played its part

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OfS lost Sussex on a technicality, the lines go. Jim Dickinson sees an architecture built to deliver one answer, and a regulator that played its part

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With DSA reductions already underway, Jim Dickinson argues that new research describes essential disabled student support that DfE is preparing to cut without a replacement plan

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With DSA reductions already underway, Jim Dickinson argues that new research describes essential disabled student support that DfE is preparing to cut without a replacement plan

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One less discussed implication of the government’s age restrictions on level 7 apprenticeships is upheaval in higher education teacher training. Adam Tate and Bianca Fox try to plot out what comes next

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One less discussed implication of the government’s age restrictions on level 7 apprenticeships is upheaval in higher education teacher training. Adam Tate and Bianca Fox try to plot out what comes next

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Jim Dickinson gets across DfE's latest news on Alternative Student Finance – and finds the government has accidentally reinvented the graduate tax for Muslim students

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Jim Dickinson gets across DfE's latest news on Alternative Student Finance – and finds the government has accidentally reinvented the graduate tax for Muslim students

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This week on the podcast John Blake, Director at the Post-18 Project has published his first paper arguing that English higher education's crisis stems from thirty years of policy failure

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This week on the podcast John Blake, Director at the Post-18 Project has published his first paper arguing that English higher education's crisis stems from thirty years of policy failure

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On long train journeys, I’ve been slowly meandering my way around government strategies I might have missed.

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At Education Questions in the Commons today, Department for Education (DfE) minister Josh MacAlister said this unprompted:

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But why now?

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Director of The Post-18 Project John Blake sets out why thirty years of policy struggle has left England without the higher education system it deserves

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Director of The Post-18 Project John Blake sets out why thirty years of policy struggle has left England without the higher education system it deserves

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New OfS proposals say fair treatment should be a core part of provider culture. Jim Dickinson warns that by connecting quality failures to consumer law remedies, OfS may make providers more defensive, not more honest

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New OfS proposals say fair treatment should be a core part of provider culture. Jim Dickinson warns that by connecting quality failures to consumer law remedies, OfS may make providers more defensive, not more honest

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Kashan Pirzada explains how leadership systems which prioritise immediate and countable outputs may generate short-term activity without longer-term impact

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Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world

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Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world

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Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world

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If we have indeed found evidence of DfE plans to prop up the sector, what might such a scheme look like?

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Rita Gardner stresses the benefits of deeper embedding of robust social science evidence and methodologies in the world of government policy

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Rita Gardner stresses the benefits of deeper embedding of robust social science evidence and methodologies in the world of government policy

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Rita Gardner stresses the benefits of deeper embedding of robust social science evidence and methodologies in the world of government policy

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Jim Dickinson unpacks the fallout from a DfE crackdown on weekend course misclassification – and finds students caught between forced repayment, forced delivery changes, and a system that is unlikely to accept blame

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Jim Dickinson unpacks the fallout from a DfE crackdown on weekend course misclassification – and finds students caught between forced repayment, forced delivery changes, and a system that is unlikely to accept blame