NEW on Wonkhe: 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 wonkhe.com/blogs/academ...

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NEW on Wonkhe: 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 wonkhe.com/blogs/the-ll...

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/XjqMsKa

NEW on Wonkhe: Employers make full and final offer in 2026-27 pay negotiations buff.ly/IXvsTlq

NEW on Wonkhe: What does Strategic Priority Grant spending cover, and what would cuts threaten? David Kernohan unpacks the Office for Students' primary contribution to sector funding buff.ly/k7fPa8r

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/OOim26M

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/HFLssJX

NEW on Wonkhe: On the final day of Eurovision week, Jim Dickinson celebrates Bulgaria's historic win with a look at its higher education map buff.ly/64lpmk5

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/vgz5BdV

Last week on Wonkhe: 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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Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to an Oxford fixture

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

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Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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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Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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

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

Last week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: Who was delivering higher education for who last academic year. Thanks to the OfS, DK has the receipts

This week on Wonkhe: 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

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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

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

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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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

This week on Wonkhe: 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?

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/IBSpefd

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