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...

Still holds. He's not challenging for the leadership.

WACO: Wes Always Chickens Out.

More on what we could/should have won: wonkhe.com/blogs/for-th...

There are a few things HE is waiting for that we know needed a "suitable legislative vehicle" (tidying the FoS bill, some bits on the LLE...) It doesn't look like there is one - unless there's a spare section of the (SEN focused) Education for All Bill. More widely, nothing on any wider reform.

They say when you write an article you have to have your intended audience in mind. So this basically could have been an email to @mike-rat.bsky.social wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Is it too much to ask that Labour thinks about a woman as leader? Just once?

I'm pretty sure that Keir Starmer won't resign while you take a few minutes to look at this new data on the size and shape of franchise provision in English higher education: wonkhe.com/blogs/findin...

Absolute STATE of that OfS data release. It's reasons like this that we need OSR for.

So. Vellum discourse. Vellum is not used for the copy of the State Opening of Parliament Speech used by the King (The King's Speech). He does get a specially printed booklet,and generally the monarch had preferred to have it a few days in advance (hence an earlier cut off for changes).

NEW: OfS puts conditions of registration on computing at Northampton. The VC responds: wonkhe.com/blogs/ofs-in...

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/cL7jvV5

So true. Basically everything I enjoy fits the pattern of updating numbers I can fixate on.

Here's a really good blog by @jaclarner.bsky.social explaining how the voting system works for tomorrow's #Senedd elections If you're voting in Wales have a read before you vote - tactical voting, if that's your plan, is very different to a Westminster Election jaclarner.github.io/jaclarner/bl...

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/L7dfF4z

NEW on Wonkhe: 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. buff.ly/0Ld5v1X

NEW on Wonkhe: 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 buff.ly/wvMTofQ

Honestly the more you read, the less good it looks for OfS: wonkhe.com/blogs/sussex...

Oh dear.

NEW on Wonkhe: The Biobank data found on an auction site didn't get there because of a technical hack. David Kernohan wants to talk about academic trust and malpractice buff.ly/Ihnt8j4

Quite the UK Biobank story. Glad that the data was de-idenified, and that there is a technical fix to stop it happening again. www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/news/a-messa...

NEW on Wonkhe: DfE enacts the free speech rules it planned to last year buff.ly/tuUahhn

Guys, you don't need to put external CO2 into beer. www.cityam.com/beer-fear-co...

Occured that you could probably visit Wales' nine universities in a single working day. It'd be a slog, but it would be 7h25 according to bing maps. www.bing.com/maps/directi...

NEW on Wonkhe: Media literacy is changing – again. And this time the answers are not clear wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Classic Jim.

NEW on Wonkhe: The Canterbury meningitis response and its assumptions about student life buff.ly/9HSe78y

NEW on Wonkhe: Can judicial review force OfS to regulate bible colleges? buff.ly/jComiyT

Anything to avoid dealing with the wider questions of university finance.

NEW on Wonkhe: Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce buff.ly/FFKK9nM

A very considered and in depth write up of our @taso.org.uk reports published and launched at our conference today. We need better support for those most at risk of poor wellbeing, students who as the write up concludes are being effectively reached

This is a @brookmyre.bsky.social book, no? inews.co.uk/news/jeffrey...

NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson compares OfS approach to students against other UK regulators – and finds a regulator that lacks the mechanisms, the rigour, and the will to act on what students are telling it buff.ly/4aIFBlX

This is very good by @dkernohan.bsky.social. There has always been something obscure about the OfS approach to enforcement and now access to funding streams (eg LLE gateway or future fee increases) hang on it we definitely need greater transparency. A day 1 issue for a new Chief Exec IMO.

NEW on Wonkhe: Student visa restrictions for four countries buff.ly/pR3uIgr

Buckets, innit.

You'll never believe(*) where I found that secret LEO salary data that "looking for growth" keep banging on about! wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/... * you will, in fact, probably not be that shocked.

NEW on Wonkhe: Plaid Cymru would launch an HE review in its first 100 days bit.ly/4aSOIHm

An excellent analysis of immigration and the UK HE system by @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/immigr...

NEW on Wonkhe: AI has yet to have a meaningful impact on the flourishing world of the open mic night. David Kernohan argues that this tells us a lot about learning, community, and finding joy buff.ly/Jna0rek

📣 Competence standards klaxon! 📣 I do really like the approach this article is talking about (we have something similar on some modules here). But we HAVE to talk about speaking and presenting skills in the legal context of competence standards wonkhe.com/blogs/stop-l...

The LLE remains as popular as ever: wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...