David Kernohan
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Him off of @Wonkhe. Sky Cards Rare Master.
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Mike Ratcliffe
15 days ago
The end-of-year podcast is excellent (right to the very end). But again, we come back to the failings of franchising universities to protect the controlled reputational range of the sector in their deals with for-profit providers. Let it stop in 2026.
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So, that Centre for Social Justice thing that suggests that many graduates would be better off having done a higher apprenticeship. Turns out we are comparing a population of hundreds of thousands of graduates to a population of 1,810 L4 apprenticeships.
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Why we need to treat statistics about higher apprentices five years on with caution
Another Sunday, another think tank all over the Sunday papers
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/why-we-need-to-treat-statistics-about-higher-apprentices-five-years-on-with-caution/
15 days ago
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Wonkhe
18 days ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Posh? Exceeded your A level expectations? You are less likely to go to university
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Susan Lapworth to leave the OfS at Easter 2026 - Office for Students
Susan Lapworth, the chief executive of the Office for Students (OfS), will leave the organisation at Easter 2026, the OfS has confirmed today.
https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/press-and-media/susan-lapworth-to-leave-the-ofs-at-easter-2026/
18 days ago
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Pretty much what the article title says.
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19 days ago
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Wonkhe
19 days ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Steven Hill sets out what Research England has been up to during the REF 2029 pause
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Wonkhe
21 days ago
NEW on Wonkhe: There is another quality assurance system in England: it has little to do with outcomes metrics, and a lot to do with meeting immediate needs. David Kernohan lifts the lid.
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Jim Dickinson
21 days ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Ticking boxes misses the point
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Wonkhe
21 days ago
NEW on Wonkhe: The external examiner system is respected, popular, and widespread. Vicki Stott asks how we can build on these strengths to improve the quality of provision further - across the UK and beyond
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Wonkhe
22 days ago
This week on Wonkhe: Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education
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Whatever happened to the New Universities Challenge?
Seventeen years after its hopeful launch, Southend’s university campus is closing. Jim Dickinson examines what this tells us about the failure of place-based planning in UK higher education
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Big question for me on this is why has it taken OfS so long to open a formal investigation?
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made the allegations in March, and the police started their investigation in May and intensified it in July?
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25 days ago
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Charts, innit?
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26 days ago
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Love this on part time work and creative graduates.
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26 days ago
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Hearing that EIS-ULA also failed to meet the statutory 50 per cent threshold. Writing up the results here:
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UCU pay ballot fails to meet threshold
No industrial action expected from UCU on the 2025-26 New Jnches pay round
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/ucu-pay-ballot-fails-to-meet-threshold/
27 days ago
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UCU ballot on industrial action over pay and pay-related: turnout 39%, meaning there will be no national industrial action on these issues by UCU. Still waiting for Unison and EIS-ULA results.
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Wonkhe
about 1 month ago
NEW on Wonkhe: The UK Standard Skills Classification is a new way to think about the connections between courses and jobs. David Kernohan loves a new coding framework
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Wonkhe
about 1 month ago
NEW on Wonkhe: How can you get a maintenance loan and not a fee loan?
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Here we go:
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Budget 2025 for universities and students
Team Wonkhe unpacks an unusually consequential Budget for higher education, as a complex mix of fee rises, international student levies, and stealth costs for graduates reshape the sector’s financial ...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/budget-2025-for-universities-and-students/
about 1 month ago
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Wonkhe
about 1 month ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Ahead of an evidence paper and call for submissions, Minister for Further and Higher Education Vikki Howells sets out her understanding of the key challenges faced by higher education in Wales
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Are level 6 apprenticeships next?
Universities and employers are concerned enough about further defunding to write to ministers
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/are-level-6-apprenticeships-next/
about 1 month ago
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Commons Education Committee seems to think that there is a provider at risk of collapse before the end of 2025. DfE and OfS disagree.
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Government would protect interests of "students, taxpayers, and research" in provider insolvency
And the committee seems to think there is one on the way before 2026.
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/government-would-protect-interests-of-students-taxpayers-and-research-in-provider-insolvency/
about 1 month ago
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I did a thing for Wonkhe in which I kind of make an argument not to scrap the graduate labour market survey.
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There is a live consultation on this that ends on 1 December. If you are convinced by my argument that we need hourly earnings data please do drop DfE a note.
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Can there ever be a definitive graduate premium?
With the pressures of the current loan repayment system, it feels like the graduate premium has never been more central to higher education policymaking - or more difficult to accurately estimate. Dav...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/can-there-ever-be-a-definitive-graduate-premium/
about 1 month ago
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Wonkhe
about 1 month ago
NEW on Wonkhe: New Skills England guidance provides the detail for the white paper’s vision of a coherent skills system. Michael Salmon assesses whether it could work
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Alex Selby-Boothroyd
about 1 month ago
Yep, why not score a goal from your own half in the 98th minute?
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Wonkhe
about 2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: It's taken eleven months, but the draft OfS strategy is now finalised. David Kernohan takes a look at what has changed
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Andy Westwood
about 2 months ago
Great piece - understands policy context and asks the right questions about what that means for the university and the city.
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Happy The Festival of Higher Education day for those who celebrate! If you are joining us in London, may I modestly suggest sessions on a single data model, and on green skills, will be the sessions all the cool kids will be at.
about 2 months ago
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Wonkhe
about 2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Plymouth is once again entering an era of defence-driven growth. Richard Davies asks how the university fits in
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Though governments and the education industry seem to be stuck in the AI boosterism stage, the financial markets are very much moving on.
www.cityam.com/ai-bubble-fe...
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AI bubble fears deepen as Altman denies state support demands
Fears global markets are in an AI bubble accelerated after Sam Altman was forced to deny that OpenAI wanted the government to back its debt.
https://www.cityam.com/ai-bubble-fears-ramp-up-altman-chatgpt/
about 2 months ago
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Well.
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OfS reported for non-compliance
Can OfS even statutory instrument?
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/ofs-reported-for-non-compliance/
about 2 months ago
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John Blake
about 2 months ago
Never really certain if anyone sees these things on here, but for those who do and are interested, I am shortly stepping down from my role at the Office for Students -- full statement here:
www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-an...
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Director for Fair Access and Participation steps down from regulator - Office for Students
John Blake's four-year term as the Director for Fair Access and Participation at the Office for Students (OfS) ends this year. The Secretary of State will be appointing an interim Director for Fair Ac...
https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/news-blog-and-events/press-and-media/director-for-fair-access-and-participation-steps-down-from-regulator/
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At last!
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- this is a great SLB season,now we can finally focus 100% on the court!
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FIBA recognises SLB directly as GB ban lifted - Hoopsfix.com
FIBA has lifted the British Basketball Federation's (BBF) suspension and formally recognised Super League Basketball (SLB) as a professional league in Great Britain.
https://www.hoopsfix.com/2025/11/fiba-recognises-slb-directly-as-gb-ban-lifted/
about 2 months ago
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It feels like there is a risk that OfS has overstepped the mark here.
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about 2 months ago
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Margot Finn
about 2 months ago
'It turns out that if you design a landscape that looks like alphabet soup, you shouldn’t be surprised when applicants misread the signposts.' 1/3
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Universities in England can't ignore the curriculum (and students) that are coming
As Bridget Phillipson unveils “landmark reforms” to the schools curriculum in England, Jim Dickinson explores how curriculum and qualification redesigns are reshaping the pipeline to higher education
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/universities-in-england-cant-ignore-the-curriculum-and-students-that-are-coming/
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How wise of software developers to intuit that what really want is for everything to take four times as long to open, and to dispay a garish button imploring me to mangle whatever is in the file through a cheap knock off LLM.
about 2 months ago
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Wonkhe
about 2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: HESA researcher Tej Nathwani unpacks what would happen to our understanding of graduate outcomes if survey response rates continue to fall
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Jim Dickinson
about 2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Diamond’s a distant memory as Wales plays inflation games with fees and maintenance
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Wonkhe
about 2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Learning and work is for the well off
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Jim Dickinson
about 2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: James Coe unpacks the incentives underpinning the government’s specialisation agenda
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Yes, there is a graduate earnings premium (even if you account for prior qualifications)
But this is old data and needs updating
https://wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/yes-there-is-a-graduate-earnings-premium-even-if-you-account-for-prior-qualifications/
about 2 months ago
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Wonkhe
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: For Richard Puttock the restrictions on national student survey results publications designed in 2005 need a rethink twenty years on
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Felt cute, thought I'd send the Daily 15mins early, no cap.
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The white paper is wrong - changing research funding won't change teaching | Wonkhe
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The white paper is wrong - changing research funding won't change teaching
Changing research funding isn't enough to bring about sector specialisation. James Coe has the politics and DK has the stats in a correlational look at the white paper.
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/the-white-paper-is-wrong-changing-research-funding-wont-change-teaching/
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Wonkhe
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: New policy proposals mean new rules - both in law and in the regulatory framework. David Kernohan breaks it down into three steps
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Wonkhe
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: We need to talk about Kalven
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Jim Dickinson
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: A not so happy birthday to the Robbins Review
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Jim Dickinson
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: As Wales moves toward a single regulatory framework for its entire tertiary sector, Jim Dickinson explores whether Medr's revisions signal true simplification or simply better-organised bureaucracy
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Wonkhe
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: For Elliot Newstead, the implications of changes to high-tariff recruitment behaviour go far beyond student numbers
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Everything that is in the White Paper for HE, handily digested. Or if you prefer audio:
wonkhe.com/blogs/podcas...
Or, if you prefer in person:
www.thefestivalofhe.com
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2 months ago
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Jim Dickinson
2 months ago
NEW on Wonkhe: Higher education reform is here – along with a comprehensive strategy for post-16 education and skills. Debbie McVitty and David Kernohan work through the details of the government's agenda for HE
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