Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of what used to be @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social - the card dates from before 1953 when it became Queen Elizabeth College, re-merging with KCL in 1985 If you like this image, I’d really appreciate a repost - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Facepalm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (primacy and recency effect - get the start or the end wrong and it spoils the whole thing)

Good news. But at Sussex University last weekend they told us they had closed so many language courses that links with EU institutions have dwindled and Erasmus returning won’t change that.

I’ve been waiting for him to announce this - if he can’t get the Iranians to stop tolling ships upstream, he’ll join in and toll them again downstream. And try to find a way for most of the proceeds to find their way into his pocket.

NEW on Wonkhe: DfE’s desperation on equality impact-assessing student finance reaches a new low buff.ly/w8gxfGv

NEW: 10 key findings about the outcomes of initially high-achieving children from disadvantaged backgrounds - with John Jerrim and Maria Palma Carvajal This post brings together some of the “greatest hits” from across this research project. ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2026/04/10-k...

New from me Things Can Get Worse. Why I'm so worried about the SEND reform direction of travel. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

Terrific piece by @bennewmark.bsky.social on SEND and inclusion in England

Very intelligent from @bennewmark.bsky.social on the proposed SEND reforms. Would be great if the government are listening: bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

I'm afraid there'll be much, much more of this going forward. Prospective students and parents should check very carefully before applying to university courses that may not exist by the next autumn, and may be closed even while they're on them. www.itv.com/news/central...

Really enjoyed doing this talk and interview with Chris Baker of the @williamtemplefdn.bsky.social. Delighted it's out now as a podcast. We discuss the necessity for a social turn towards a metaphysical or spiritual understanding of reality, in order to find meaning within a world of limits.

There's a major social and economic crisis coming down the line for Gen X - and policymakers need to get ahead of it now. New report from @gideonsalutin.bsky.social and Niamh O Regan on the upcoming 'pension shock' crisis ⬇️

NEW on Wonkhe: Rachel Reeves on student loans isn’t even arguing with herself yet wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

This is magnificently contemptuous www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Vernon Bogdanor for the Weekend FT on why FPTP can't cope with our new multi-party politics - a good read with a nice @robfordmancs.bsky.social quote in there too www.ft.com/content/38d8...

NEW on Wonkhe: Another specialist provider collapses wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Crewe and Alsager College, once an HEI in its own right; then merged with @manmetuni.bsky.social I don't think either of these campuses are still in use by MMU If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

This is my GP surgery. Things don’t seem better at all.

I'm not a fan of PR, but that ship has sailed. Read a great essay in Political Quarterly about this a while back. Having introduced it outside Westminster (European Parliament, Devolved Governments), we have allowed a multiparty system to develop anyway. The Westminster system has now got to adapt.

I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.

I think a lot of politicians & commentators see all this very differently from most of the country. They see it as part of an ongoing story about decision-making, personalities, probity, money etc. For everyone else it’s part of a long series of events: Saville, Huw Edwards, Rotherham & more (1/)

This whole debate prompted a re-read of @stulock.bsky.social’s superb blog, ‘Kevin’ mrlock.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/k... There are consequences to reducing consequences. And we do need to recognise them.

Here's a #HigherEducation cigarette card showing the arms of the University of Dublin This is a collegiate university, founded in 1592; its only college is Trinity College Dublin In 1898 the High Court determined that they were in fact one body This is a spin-off from #HigherEducationPostcard

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @campionhall.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk It is a Permanent Private Hall - a status introduced in 1918 via 1854, as a way to reduce the cost of study by not being in a college If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

This week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag tells a tale of Teesside innovation

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Lady Margaret Hall, @ox.ac.uk Founded in 1878, the College is named for Lady Margaret Beaufort, C15 great and good and mother of Henry VII If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @jesusoxford.bsky.social and @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social Happy Birthday, I guess? And Happy Christmas to you all! If you like this image, please repost it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Yeah!

"We will have an economy in which the full-time work of some young people will pay less than the state pensions of retirees, and yet it is the young people who will be taxed." www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Here's a weekend special #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Because it is, of course, #StAndrewsDay If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Worcester College, Oxford, which has rather magnificent buildings It was built on the site of Gloucester College, which did not survive the reformation If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

Join me (@cusp.ac.uk), @hannahmerich.bsky.social (@chrleft.bsky.social & @theosthinktank.bsky.social), and Andrew Hines (@coventrycathedral.bsky.social) on Thursday 4 December at 6pm GMT:

Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @qmul.bsky.social The East London College, Queen Mary's forerunner institution, was a technical and recreative institute, also known as the People's Palace If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm

I'll be giving a talk with @williamtemplefdn.bsky.social on 4 December: 'The Third Dimension of Our Environmental Crisis'. Join us online 4 December, 6–7.15pm GMT for free eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...

The problem with diagnosing "the electorate have unreasonable expectations around tax and spend" is that those expectations did not develop in a vacuum. They are the product of decades of politicians and the media telling them they can have x services with y tax levels, or not contradicting it.

@steverichards.bsky.social listening to Ian’s limited take on the Plaid vote in Caerphilly. There was a lot of route 1 how to keep the far right out, I was there are the weekend…

New Post: Weekend Reading: How will universities respond to the 6 per cent international student levy?   www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/04/w...

In my new book, The Meaning of Growth - published 30 September by @routledgebooks and featuring a foreword by @timjackson.org.uk - I investigate the roots of the political resistance to environmental science and policy, and suggest a new approach to overcoming it. www.routledge.com/The-Meaning-...

@matt-forde.bsky.social thank you for your amazing episode of how do you cope. You are a truly remarkable person.

New polling from us puts universities at the bottom of the education priority list ahead of the spending review

NEW on Wonk Corner: That university debt problem is a big issue off the balance sheet too