A collapse in on-campus engagement is often blamed on online lectures or part-time work. Sunday Blake follows up on belonging research with Pearson to find out what's really driving them away T...
As even some students' basic needs go unmet, Jim Dickinson interrogates the impact that student poverty is having on concentration, mental health and satisfaction The post Some students have. S...
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For the first time since the second world war, the consensus on the need for more graduates has collapsed. David Kernohan picks up the pieces The post A historic shift in higher education manif...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/a-historic-shift-in-higher-education-manifesto-promises/
Could graduate outcomes data be used to inform a future Labour government’s stewardship of the labour market? Michael Salmon makes the case The post Graduate outcomes should be part of indust...
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IHE's Joy Elliott-Bowman welcomes a belated government acceptance that there is more to skills than a small number of employer-approved higher technical qualifications The post There’s more t...
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People always ask Guardian league table compiler Matt Hiely-Rayner how their university can do better in rankings. For him, the answer lies in institutional research The post Institutional rese...
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Adam Runacres explains how listening to students can improve programmes where mentoring is designed to help them reach higher education The post Mentoring to widen access appeared first on Won...
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to “that godless institution in Gower Street” The post Higher education postcard: University College London appeared first on Wonkhe...
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Data on the graduating class that had to deal with Liz Truss's economy. David Kernohan wonders why things didn't look worse for them The post HESA Spring 2024: Graduate Outcomes appeared first...
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This week on the podcast all the major parties have their manifestos out for the General Election. What's in there for students or universities? The post Podcast: Manifestos, academic experienc...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/podcast-manifestos-academic-experience-flirting/
The HEPI/Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey paints a bleak picture of students increasingly unable to realise the benefits of higher education. Jim Dickinson does the splits The post...
The next government’s approach to widening access will be key to the future of higher education itself, says Graeme Atherton The post How will Labour define opportunity? appeared first on Wo...
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Adam Matthews looks beyond the iconography and politics of the Thatcher era to find a surprising degree of political consensus over higher education The post Higher education in General Electio...
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How can universities turn around the perception of students who come to the UK to study? Carsyn Wiley has ideas. The post Everyone can play a role in changing the perception of international st...
Steve Briggs, Sally Everett, and Debbie Holley assess the evidence from Advance HE national teaching awards The post Traditional HE role classifications create structural inequalities for third...
Degrees in media, screen, journalism, and communication studies often face public derision. Yet as Ruairí Cullen explains, these subjects show remarkable resilience and rising appeal, despite on...
As Labour looks to both talk tough and think strategically on defence, James Coe charts universities’ difficult relationship with international politics The post Unless universities get on to...
Pausing BTEC defunding is a cost-neutral decision for an incoming government. Mary Curnock Cook assesses the impact of current policy on HE participation The post Defunding BTECs could cause HE...
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The direction of travel for research security in the UK is an increasing focus on specific countries. Sapna Marwaha considers the competing government agendas and mixed messages to international ...
Space may be the final frontier – but with a bit more coordinated investment, Bleddyn Bowen and Paul Angrave argue UK universities could be even further ahead The post The astropolitics of hi...
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Steven Jones has four asks for an incoming government from university academic staff The post A manifesto for higher education from an academic perspective appeared first on Wonkhe .
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How would you use a nominal £750m to stave off provider collapse for the next academic year? David Kernohan weighs up the options The post How to get the sector through the next year appeared...
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Katie Stripe identifies some of higher education's most common unfair and untrue beliefs - and calls for effort to dismantle them The post It’s time to dismantle higher education’s stereoty...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/its-time-to-dismantle-higher-educations-stereotypes/
This week on the podcast we talk about potential HE policy after the election - could a tuition fee rise be on the cards in England if Labour wins? The post Podcast: Post-election, manifestos, ...
https://wonkhe.com/blogs/podcast-post-election-manifestos-mickey-mouse/
Increasing numbers of students are using self-employment as a component of supporting their living costs. Robert Phillips asks whether universities can help The post Students are turning to sel...
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This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to the home of the Ducks The post Higher education postcard: University of Oregon appeared first on Wonkhe .
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A big majority for Labour at the coming general election could give the new government cover to raise fees as part of a package to help universities get to safety The post Why I wouldn’t bet ...
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The amount of data available for analysis means that we can be surer that outreach programmes are performing. Paul Martin explains how The post Taking a closer look at how we target outreach pr...
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The seventies saw galloping inflation, strikes, and the polarisation of politics. But Debbie McVitty also finds in General Election manifestos of the time the arrival of students as a political f...
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Access and Participation Plans require universities to demonstrate a "whole provider" approach. Liz Thomas has been working out what that entails The post What is a whole provider approach to w...
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