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Students acknowledge those who have helped them within their dissertation - and the growth they themselves have experienced. Mollie Etheridge loves to see this kind of reflection

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Students acknowledge those who have helped them within their dissertation - and the growth they themselves have experienced. Mollie Etheridge loves to see this kind of reflection

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The Employment Rights Act 2025 promises to end one-sided flexibility – but Jim Dickinson finds the framework hasn't reckoned with term-time working, seasonal employment, or the structural realities of student labour

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The Employment Rights Act 2025 promises to end one-sided flexibility – but Jim Dickinson finds the framework hasn't reckoned with term-time working, seasonal employment, or the structural realities of student labour

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Matching graduates with labour market demand is a notoriously tricky thing to do if you try.

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Curt Rice argues that as European governments plan for war, cyberattacks and supply shocks, they are missing the one pillar of resilience that can't be built on demand

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Curt Rice argues that as European governments plan for war, cyberattacks and supply shocks, they are missing the one pillar of resilience that can't be built on demand

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The advent of the lifelong learning entitlement may mean a new wave of interest in accelerated degrees. Brendan Coulson explains

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The advent of the lifelong learning entitlement may mean a new wave of interest in accelerated degrees. Brendan Coulson explains

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One of these things is much cheaper than the other

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The latest British Social Attitudes survey release tracks a disquieting change in the public's perception of higher education. David Kernohan has the numbers

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The latest British Social Attitudes survey release tracks a disquieting change in the public's perception of higher education. David Kernohan has the numbers

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And have we just designed a funding system that makes them less inclined to?

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The Home Office’s new system for monitoring visa compliance has come into effect. Michael Salmon walks us through the stricter process and speculates on the fallout

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The Home Office’s new system for monitoring visa compliance has come into effect. Michael Salmon walks us through the stricter process and speculates on the fallout

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So that Alan Milburn report.

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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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Research makes economies stronger and a stronger economy is the only way out of the quagmire of political inertia that has left a generation of young people chronically unemployed. Universities must do something but James Coe argues they…

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Research makes economies stronger and a stronger economy is the only way out of the quagmire of political inertia that has left a generation of young people chronically unemployed. Universities must do something but James Coe argues they…

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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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People don't care about GDP. They care about their lives, their families, and their everyday getting better. Sarah Chaytor and John Tomaney tell a new story about the potential for universities to repair a fraying social fabric and in…

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People don't care about GDP. They care about their lives, their families, and their everyday getting better. Sarah Chaytor and John Tomaney tell a new story about the potential for universities to repair a fraying social fabric and in…

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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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Last time we looked, Spain was already top of the charts.

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This week on the podcast we discuss the scale and shape of cuts across UK higher education

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This week on the podcast we discuss the scale and shape of cuts across UK higher education

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Pop quiz, hotshot

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Alan Milburn lays out the data and listens to the voices of young people not in education employment or training. David Kernohan picks out the highlights for higher education

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Alan Milburn lays out the data and listens to the voices of young people not in education employment or training. David Kernohan picks out the highlights for higher education

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Course friends and off-course friends do fundamentally different things for students. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall examine what that means for belonging strategy – and for the students the headline numbers miss

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Course friends and off-course friends do fundamentally different things for students. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall examine what that means for belonging strategy – and for the students the headline numbers miss

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Jenny Gradwell examines what happens when casework teams apply the OfS freedom of speech guidance to student conduct reports – and finds the operational detail unhelpfully absent

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Jenny Gradwell examines what happens when casework teams apply the OfS freedom of speech guidance to student conduct reports – and finds the operational detail unhelpfully absent

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us onto the playing fields

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us onto the playing fields

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Fair play to Kevin Shakesheff.

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There is a version of the campus free speech story that the political movement behind the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act 2023 has told for a decade.

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There are widespread concerns about the quality of franchise provision, but as the QAA's Rebecca Robinson points out, there's a huge variation within that category

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There are widespread concerns about the quality of franchise provision, but as the QAA's Rebecca Robinson points out, there's a huge variation within that category

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The push to connect learning to professional life is well-intentioned. Samantha Elliott warns that the language used to describe it tells students their current world doesn't count

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The push to connect learning to professional life is well-intentioned. Samantha Elliott warns that the language used to describe it tells students their current world doesn't count

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Public and DfE responses have been published today

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Story goes that a student in Pakistan turned up to an agent's office with a gun, demanding a deposit refund from a UK university.

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Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to look like part of the solution

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Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to look like part of the solution

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With a new criminal offence for sex-based harassment now in force, Anna Bull warns it may deepen the criminal justice drift already shaping how universities handle gender-based violence

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With a new criminal offence for sex-based harassment now in force, Anna Bull warns it may deepen the criminal justice drift already shaping how universities handle gender-based violence

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With universities cutting bursaries and hardship funds as budgets tighten, Jim Dickinson finds support shrinking fastest, in real terms, exactly where students need it most

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With universities cutting bursaries and hardship funds as budgets tighten, Jim Dickinson finds support shrinking fastest, in real terms, exactly where students need it most

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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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In 2026–27 Wonkhe will present a new online course Making Sense of Higher Education. Debbie McVitty explains where we're coming from and what it's designed to do

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In 2026–27 Wonkhe will present a new online course Making Sense of Higher Education. Debbie McVitty explains where we're coming from and what it's designed to do

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Universities UK’s Future Universities strategy aims to tackle public apathy towards universities. Sally Mapstone explains why that means doing more than “telling better stories”

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Universities UK’s Future Universities strategy aims to tackle public apathy towards universities. Sally Mapstone explains why that means doing more than “telling better stories”

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This week on the podcast the final pieces of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement puzzle are falling into place

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This week on the podcast the final pieces of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement puzzle are falling into place

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With the sector overstretched and reviewers overburdened, Stuart King asks whether we can share our peer reviews for REF instead of endlessly repeating them

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With the sector overstretched and reviewers overburdened, Stuart King asks whether we can share our peer reviews for REF instead of endlessly repeating them

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Cambridge via the east end of London

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Cambridge via the east end of London

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Peer development and observation must not be a form of surveillance. Yaz Osho, Katherine Mansfield and Richard Paterson make the case for a process where educators can create spaces of belonging

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Peer development and observation must not be a form of surveillance. Yaz Osho, Katherine Mansfield and Richard Paterson make the case for a process where educators can create spaces of belonging

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With refusal rates spiking, withdrawals surging, and universities pre-emptively retreating from high-risk markets, Jim Dickinson finds an international contraction engineered through plumbing rather than policy

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With refusal rates spiking, withdrawals surging, and universities pre-emptively retreating from high-risk markets, Jim Dickinson finds an international contraction engineered through plumbing rather than policy

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Timing is everything

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In tough economic times sustainability commitments can take a back seat. Scott Davidson explains why the long term health of the planet shouldn't be sacrificed to short term pressures

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In tough economic times sustainability commitments can take a back seat. Scott Davidson explains why the long term health of the planet shouldn't be sacrificed to short term pressures

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Higher education institutions are still reluctant to discuss class, and how it plays out in academic careers. For Jamie Tully and Hazel Mycroft, it’s time to start talking

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Higher education institutions are still reluctant to discuss class, and how it plays out in academic careers. For Jamie Tully and Hazel Mycroft, it’s time to start talking

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Newer migrants could contribute even more to the UK with access to training and development. Lydia Dye-Stonebridge asks why the LLE can't work for them

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Newer migrants could contribute even more to the UK with access to training and development. Lydia Dye-Stonebridge asks why the LLE can't work for them

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Extraordinary times demand extraordinary leadership. Mohammad Ali, Millan Alvarez-Miranda Navarro and Ian Plover set out their framework

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Extraordinary times demand extraordinary leadership. Mohammad Ali, Millan Alvarez-Miranda Navarro and Ian Plover set out their framework

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Established ideas of leadership are mismatched with the crisis in UK higher education. Lisa Colledge, Candy Rowe, Sarah Shenow and others reflect on the UKRI future leaders fellows development network summit

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Established ideas of leadership are mismatched with the crisis in UK higher education. Lisa Colledge, Candy Rowe, Sarah Shenow and others reflect on the UKRI future leaders fellows development network summit

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The old international recruitment paradigm thought about China in terms of how many students it would send abroad. Leina Shi explains its increasing focus on attracting international talent – and why the UK needs to pay attention

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The old international recruitment paradigm thought about China in terms of how many students it would send abroad. Leina Shi explains its increasing focus on attracting international talent – and why the UK needs to pay attention

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Three draft statutory instruments herald the end game of the biggest change in the student finance system since 2011. DK breaks down what is going on, and asks why these plans have seen so little meaningful scrutiny

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Three draft statutory instruments herald the end game of the biggest change in the student finance system since 2011. DK breaks down what is going on, and asks why these plans have seen so little meaningful scrutiny

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The OIA is consulting on a shorter, more flexible complaints scheme – but Jim Dickinson finds that most of the flexibility created depends on the adjudicator's benevolence

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The OIA is consulting on a shorter, more flexible complaints scheme – but Jim Dickinson finds that most of the flexibility created depends on the adjudicator's benevolence

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It's improved over the course of negotiations

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What does Strategic Priority Grant spending cover, and what would cuts threaten? David Kernohan unpacks the Office for Students' primary contribution to sector funding

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What does Strategic Priority Grant spending cover, and what would cuts threaten? David Kernohan unpacks the Office for Students' primary contribution to sector funding

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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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The consensus that more research funding will lead to more growth is breaking down. Richard Jones urges the sector to act before it's too late

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The consensus that more research funding will lead to more growth is breaking down. Richard Jones urges the sector to act before it's too late

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On the final day of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson celebrates Bulgaria's historic win with a look at its higher education map

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On the final day of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson celebrates Bulgaria's historic win with a look at its higher education map

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On Day Five of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson has a mooch around Austrian HE to work out what it's built on - and what staff and students do on top

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On Day Five of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson has a mooch around Austrian HE to work out what it's built on - and what staff and students do on top

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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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There are various frustrating aspects of this week's Commons' Education Committee report on "Higher Education and Funding: Threat of Insolvency and International Students".

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A lot of work for a prize of uncertain value

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Why merge and why now? James Coe deconstructs the big news on King’s College London and Cranfield University.

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Why merge and why now? James Coe deconstructs the big news on King’s College London and Cranfield University.

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This week on the podcast the government turns up the heat on universities over antisemitism – but with enforcement details still to come, what does Starmer's zero-tolerance pledge mean in practice?

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This week on the podcast the government turns up the heat on universities over antisemitism – but with enforcement details still to come, what does Starmer's zero-tolerance pledge mean in practice?

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to an Oxford fixture

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to an Oxford fixture

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David Kernohan digests this year's OfS summary of annual financial returns, and the parallel release of HESA finance data

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David Kernohan digests this year's OfS summary of annual financial returns, and the parallel release of HESA finance data

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Everything we know so far about this latest sector merger

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For Day Three of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson goes from Bucharest to Chișinău to get across the HE reform agenda for Europe’s least visited country

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For Day Three of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson goes from Bucharest to Chișinău to get across the HE reform agenda for Europe’s least visited country

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Andrew Crosbie argues that to build learning cultures fit for a wicked world, higher education must first unlearn what it takes for granted about learning itself

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Andrew Crosbie argues that to build learning cultures fit for a wicked world, higher education must first unlearn what it takes for granted about learning itself

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Lewis Eves, Gilsun Jeong, Nandor Revesz and Harrison Swinhoe found that if you ask students why they rely on AI, their answers often point to anxieties about engaging with their tutors

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Lewis Eves, Gilsun Jeong, Nandor Revesz and Harrison Swinhoe found that if you ask students why they rely on AI, their answers often point to anxieties about engaging with their tutors

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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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The latest of the increasingly desperate attempts to shore up both the Office for Students (OfS) and its free speech tsar Arif Ahmed comes from Abhishek Saha, who's a professor of maths at Queen Mary and a founder member of the London…

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For Day Three of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson tours Europe's student meal subsidies – and finds the UK alleviating student food insecurity via declining food banks and the odd free apple

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For Day Three of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson tours Europe's student meal subsidies – and finds the UK alleviating student food insecurity via declining food banks and the odd free apple

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Most students want more exposure to diverse viewpoints but fewer than one in three get it. Julie M. Norman and Thomas Gift make the case for a classroom-based approach to disagreeing well

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Most students want more exposure to diverse viewpoints but fewer than one in three get it. Julie M. Norman and Thomas Gift make the case for a classroom-based approach to disagreeing well

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New analysis from the British Academy shows us huge areas of the country where key areas of humanities, arts, and social sciences are not taught. Ruairi Cullen has the details

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New analysis from the British Academy shows us huge areas of the country where key areas of humanities, arts, and social sciences are not taught. Ruairi Cullen has the details

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Who was delivering higher education for who last academic year? Thanks to the OfS, DK has the receipts

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Who was delivering higher education for who last academic year? Thanks to the OfS, DK has the receipts

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With interesting timing, the committee’s new report says that making it harder to stay in the UK may particularly drive away those working in HE

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The Commons Education committee makes recommendations about insolvency, protection plans, international recruitment, and pensions

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Data users in the higher education sector and beyond are increasingly demanding statistics at a more granular level of geography. Tej Nathwani talks us through how HESA is responding to these requests

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Data users in the higher education sector and beyond are increasingly demanding statistics at a more granular level of geography. Tej Nathwani talks us through how HESA is responding to these requests

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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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For a few months in 2023 a university department had some problems. Anne-Marie Kilday asks what the benefit is of imposing a condition of registration three years on

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For a few months in 2023 a university department had some problems. Anne-Marie Kilday asks what the benefit is of imposing a condition of registration three years on

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Debbie McVitty and Fiona Lennoxsmith reflect on the structural challenge of higher education change and invite emerging leaders to join a new Wonkhe x Advance HE project on developing leadership change capability for the future

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Debbie McVitty and Fiona Lennoxsmith reflect on the structural challenge of higher education change and invite emerging leaders to join a new Wonkhe x Advance HE project on developing leadership change capability for the future

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Really, it is all about delivery. David Kernohan tries to work out how Reform could put some of its wilder HE ideas into action

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Really, it is all about delivery. David Kernohan tries to work out how Reform could put some of its wilder HE ideas into action

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With populism closing in on Europe's universities, Jim Dickinson reads finds a new King's volume that grasps only half of a post-war bargain breaking on both sides

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With populism closing in on Europe's universities, Jim Dickinson reads finds a new King's volume that grasps only half of a post-war bargain breaking on both sides

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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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The peer review system is at risk of being overwhelmed. Bashir M Al-Hashimi calls for a culture shift to address the growing volume of artificial intelligence-enabled research outputs

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The peer review system is at risk of being overwhelmed. Bashir M Al-Hashimi calls for a culture shift to address the growing volume of artificial intelligence-enabled research outputs

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag comes from a real Northern Powerhouse, to coin a phrase

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag comes from a real Northern Powerhouse, to coin a phrase

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Jim Dickinson unpacks the NMC's nursing and midwifery proposals – and finds a regulator setting standards without the funding architecture to deliver them

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Jim Dickinson unpacks the NMC's nursing and midwifery proposals – and finds a regulator setting standards without the funding architecture to deliver them

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This week on the podcast the government turns up the heat on universities over antisemitism – but with enforcement details still to come, what does Starmer's zero-tolerance pledge mean in practice?

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This week on the podcast the government turns up the heat on universities over antisemitism – but with enforcement details still to come, what does Starmer's zero-tolerance pledge mean in practice?

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OfS guidance was supposed to help providers navigate the free speech duty. Jim Dickinson argues it now does the opposite

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OfS guidance was supposed to help providers navigate the free speech duty. Jim Dickinson argues it now does the opposite

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Researchers studying trauma often carry emotional costs that universities rarely acknowledge. Robert Allen argues that it’s time for research ethics to recognise researcher wellbeing as well as participant protection

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Researchers studying trauma often carry emotional costs that universities rarely acknowledge. Robert Allen argues that it’s time for research ethics to recognise researcher wellbeing as well as participant protection

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The latest Institute of Student Employers’ data suggests that artificial intelligence will reshape graduate employment rather than eliminate it. Stephen Isherwood walks us through it

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The latest Institute of Student Employers’ data suggests that artificial intelligence will reshape graduate employment rather than eliminate it. Stephen Isherwood walks us through it

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There was a time, not all that long ago, when free tuition was a political pledge – a line in a manifesto designed to differentiate one party’s retail offer from another’s.

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Universities are finding it ever harder to get their messages across. Steve O’Neil presents research into the underlying causes of policymaker inaction and public scepticism

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Universities are finding it ever harder to get their messages across. Steve O’Neil presents research into the underlying causes of policymaker inaction and public scepticism

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OfS has spent years regulating outcomes for groups with protected characteristics, but rarely their experience. Jim Dickinson argues that Keir Starmer's antisemitism announcement accidentally points at a fix

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OfS has spent years regulating outcomes for groups with protected characteristics, but rarely their experience. Jim Dickinson argues that Keir Starmer's antisemitism announcement accidentally points at a fix

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Graduate attributes frameworks and dashboards promise visibility – but for Sonia Vij, without reflection they risk becoming institutional metrics rather than learning tools

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Graduate attributes frameworks and dashboards promise visibility – but for Sonia Vij, without reflection they risk becoming institutional metrics rather than learning tools

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DK rounds up polling and manifesto promises to offer a higher-education-centric guide to devolved and local elections

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DK rounds up polling and manifesto promises to offer a higher-education-centric guide to devolved and local elections

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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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It would be very easy, after the Office for Students (OfS) v University of Sussex, to gloat.

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There is a way of assuring quality in higher education that foregrounds the needs of employers and the expertise of professionals. David Kernohan asks why nobody seems to be interested in it.

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There is a way of assuring quality in higher education that foregrounds the needs of employers and the expertise of professionals. David Kernohan asks why nobody seems to be interested in it.

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The moment in the Sussex judgement where academic freedom and academic standards meet

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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 of my (least) favourite moments in many an HE conference is that bit where the chair throws to the floor, and a man (it's always a man) grabs the mic and delivers a six minute soliloquy declaring that we need to go back to higher…

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag gets all springlike and festive

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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag gets all springlike and festive

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This week on the podcast as voters in Scotland and Wales head to the polls on 7 May, what do the manifestos mean for higher education?

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This week on the podcast as voters in Scotland and Wales head to the polls on 7 May, what do the manifestos mean for higher education?

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Let's hope the LLE doesn't cause problems.

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This is how we know people are learning the skills we need for the future

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Setting out the next steps for Universities UK's transformation and efficiency agenda, Nigel Carrington calls on government to back the sector's ambitions

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Setting out the next steps for Universities UK's transformation and efficiency agenda, Nigel Carrington calls on government to back the sector's ambitions

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Matthew Howling considers how government financing for HE transformation could best complement institutions' existing financial arrangements with lenders

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Matthew Howling considers how government financing for HE transformation could best complement institutions' existing financial arrangements with lenders

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The Office for Students made "errors in law" and showed possible bias in investigating and fining the University of Sussex. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have the details from the judgement, and ask what comes next

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The Office for Students made "errors in law" and showed possible bias in investigating and fining the University of Sussex. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson have the details from the judgement, and ask 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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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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With OIA complaints hitting a record and the per-student rate four times its 2008 level, Jim Dickinson argues the external scheme is being asked to carry a load it was never built for

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With OIA complaints hitting a record and the per-student rate four times its 2008 level, Jim Dickinson argues the external scheme is being asked to carry a load it was never built for

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Krupali Parshotam argues that mandatory software carries the same accessibility obligations as any other part of the curriculum – and SPSS fails that test

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Krupali Parshotam argues that mandatory software carries the same accessibility obligations as any other part of the curriculum – and SPSS fails that test

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The University of Surrey will have embedded AI use into all of its degree programmes by September. Annika Bautz explains why doing so in a discipline-specific way was so crucial

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The University of Surrey will have embedded AI use into all of its degree programmes by September. Annika Bautz explains why doing so in a discipline-specific way was so crucial

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No single institution can address the most complex access issues. Antony Moss sets out the evidence from London on why collaboration must be the way forward

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No single institution can address the most complex access issues. Antony Moss sets out the evidence from London on why collaboration must be the way forward

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In the concluding segment of the Educating the AI Generation project Rachel Maxwell and Debbie McVitty explore the role of piloting in developing institutional AI protocols

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In the concluding segment of the Educating the AI Generation project Rachel Maxwell and Debbie McVitty explore the role of piloting in developing institutional AI protocols