NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe has been on his travels and has lessons from Serbia on the future of UK research buff.ly/qi3FSmv

NEW on Wonkhe: The 22,000 weekend delivery students need information buff.ly/8BT76LN

NEW on Wonkhe: Essays used to be a prompt for dialogue, but more recently that conversation has been stripped away. Nigel Francis, David Smith, Kevin Campbell-Karn and Steve Rutherford reflect on how student generative AI use has surfaced a deeper problem buff.ly/Cbgymxn

NEW on Wonkhe: What’s going on inside UKVI? (redux) buff.ly/QgZTbJk

NEW on Wonkhe: A report found a correlation between EDI spending and free speech compliance failures that controls for institution size. William Mackesy argues the findings deserve scrutiny, not dismissal buff.ly/Y2Q2J84

NEW on Wonkhe: Wales. So close, and yet so far away buff.ly/L0Aktii

NEW on Wonkhe: Medr has a regulatory framework buff.ly/QE3xsCT

NEW on Wonkhe: Another bail out? bit.ly/416m9So

NEW on Wonkhe: Rita Gardner stresses the benefits of deeper embedding of robust social science evidence and methodologies in the world of government policy buff.ly/yfxJ6T4

NEW on Wonkhe: With universities treating free speech as a compliance problem, Peter McColl argues the sector is missing a chance to improve the culture of debate itself buff.ly/rdeTtdP

NEW on Wonkhe: This isn’t a fraud crackdown. It’s a financial emergency with no one at the helm buff.ly/LDrzvyh

NEW on Wonkhe: Setting up new international partnerships can sound like an easy win. But for Joe Lyons, where there’s little at stake we should expect little in return buff.ly/pETzGTS

NEW on Wonkhe: Danny Clegg argues that equality impact assessments must shift from records of compliance to tools for co-production and foresight buff.ly/17oPJ9l

NEW on Wonkhe: Media literacy is changing – again. And this time the answers are not clear buff.ly/pMZPaTL

NEW on Wonkhe: Spikes in inflation will hit students twice buff.ly/VgHAKWE

NEW on Wonkhe: The public critique of higher education governance is making some boards anxious. Poppy Short, Matthew Howling, Richard Sykes and Debbie McVitty work through what can reasonably be expected from governors when sustainability is on the line buff.ly/kF8fXsV

NEW on Wonkhe: The plate glass universities were founded on intimacy, radicalism and community. Adam Wright asks whether an obsession with growth has made those promises impossible to keep buff.ly/u4TEeQg

NEW on Wonkhe: Media stories about foundation years, entry qualifications and weekend delivery all lead back to the same place. Jim Dickinson follows the data buff.ly/oO1HZJx

Last week on Wonkhe: With placement students routinely clocking 75-hour weeks across study, unpaid work and paid employment, Mary Lawler, Adrian Wright, Mark Wilding and Martin Lowe argue the system needs safeguards it currently lacks wonkhe.com/blogs/placem...

Last week on Wonkhe: For the Commission on research for better economic growth Peter O'Brien sets out how the rest of the country should think about London when it comes to competition, collaboration and success

Last week on Wonkhe: Sarah Hubbard and Bridgette Bewick describe what a leadership and governance culture of inquiry might look like in higher education, as a way to navigate uncertainty and change

Last week on Wonkhe: As universities cut optional modules to balance the books, Mack Marshall finds that restricted choice is one of the clearest correlates of disengaged AI use

Last week on Wonkhe: The first phase of research culture reform has been about visibility. For Alys Kay, the next challenge is about ensuring that evidence is not just documented, but actually leads to changes in decisions

Last week on Wonkhe: New research from Wonkhe finds that assessment design – not AI policy – is what determines whether students use AI to learn or to produce. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall explain

Last week on Wonkhe: Brianah Carter and Kathleen M. Quinlan find that the everyday labour of navigating predominantly white spaces shapes how Black British students see themselves – and their education

Last week on Wonkhe: Student activities are sold as employability development – and they are. Dawn Lees warns that without proper risk assessment culture and trained student leaders, the consequences can be fatal

Last week on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson presents findings from new research on students' use of AI – and argues the sector is punishing precisely the disposition it should be cultivating

Last week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast an Australian politician has called on universities to scrap group assignments entirely, arguing they're unfair and cheapen degrees

Last week on Wonkhe: Detection tools miss the determined cheaters and terrify the principled non-users into self-censoring their own punctuation. Jim Dickinson makes the case for accountability moments over algorithmic guesswork

Last week on Wonkhe: A new DfE consultation would restrict DSA-funded software to "exceptional circumstances" across almost every category. Jim Dickinson adds up the cumulative impact on disabled students

NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson finds that disadvantaged students use AI as a production shortcut while their better-off peers treat it as a learning tool – and that the hidden curriculum explains why buff.ly/HfTTInN

This week on Wonkhe: With placement students routinely clocking 75-hour weeks across study, unpaid work and paid employment, Mary Lawler, Adrian Wright, Mark Wilding and Martin Lowe argue the system needs safeguards it currently lacks

This week on Wonkhe: A new DfE consultation would restrict DSA-funded software to "exceptional circumstances" across almost every category. Jim Dickinson adds up the cumulative impact on disabled students

This week on Wonkhe: For the Commission on research for better economic growth Peter O'Brien sets out how the rest of the country should think about London when it comes to competition, collaboration and success

This week on Wonkhe: With new OfS research showing half of graduates felt unprepared, Jim Dickinson warns the regulator's response mistakes a structural problem for a communications one

This week on Wonkhe: Sarah Hubbard and Bridgette Bewick describe what a leadership and governance culture of inquiry might look like in higher education, as a way to navigate uncertainty and change

This week on Wonkhe: The first phase of research culture reform has been about visibility. For Alys Kay, the next challenge is about ensuring that evidence is not just documented, but actually leads to changes in decisions

This week on Wonkhe: Exams, placements, seminars, peer explanation – students name the moments that made learning stick. Jim Dickinson argues the common thread is accountability, not format

This week on Wonkhe: As universities cut optional modules to balance the books, Mack Marshall finds that restricted choice is one of the clearest correlates of disengaged AI use

This week on Wonkhe: Student activities are sold as employability development – and they are. Dawn Lees warns that without proper risk assessment culture and trained student leaders, the consequences can be fatal

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: An Australian politician's call to abolish group assignments has drawn ridicule, but Jim Dickinson finds students' frustrations are well-founded – and the fixes already exist

This week on Wonkhe: Detection tools miss the determined cheaters and terrify the principled non-users into self-censoring their own punctuation. Jim Dickinson makes the case for accountability moments over algorithmic guesswork

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/Wd1hPso

NEW on Wonkhe: With placement students routinely clocking 75-hour weeks across study, unpaid work and paid employment, Mary Lawler, Adrian Wright, Mark Wilding and Martin Lowe argue the system needs safeguards it currently lacks buff.ly/4tbYE8X

NEW on Wonkhe: Brianah Carter and Kathleen M. Quinlan find that the everyday labour of navigating predominantly white spaces shapes how Black British students see themselves – and their education buff.ly/EMtcCQy

NEW on Wonkhe: NUS elects its full-time officers for 26-28 buff.ly/m5DNBHS

NEW on Wonkhe: Financial sustainability in Welsh HE buff.ly/yla6dyv

NEW on Wonkhe: A new DfE consultation would restrict DSA-funded software to "exceptional circumstances" across almost every category. Jim Dickinson adds up the cumulative impact on disabled students wonkhe.com/blogs/dfe-pr...

NEW on Wonkhe: For the Commission on research for better economic growth Peter O'Brien sets out how the rest of the country should think about London when it comes to competition, collaboration and success wonkhe.com/blogs/collab...