NEW on Wonkhe: Richard Mills and Edward Briggs have supported mergers across higher education and beyond. Here's what they've learned about what makes them work – and what makes them fall apart buff.ly/5Hrswli

NEW on Wonkhe: The Future Framework has measured the pressure on Scottish universities. Vicki Stott sets out how one alliance is testing whether autonomy and system-scale collaboration can coexist buff.ly/bBrUQ3s

NEW on Wonkhe: The voter consensus forming around Burnham’s education agenda has little time for universities buff.ly/q8N95lN

NEW on Wonkhe: Nic Beech and Clare Peddie outline the Quality Assurance Agency’s new advice and guidance chapters for the revised UK Quality Code buff.ly/fV6zxNS

NEW on Wonkhe: Madeleine Pownall and Mary Hausfeld call for research teams to be more explicit, equitable, and reflective about how they assign scholarly credit buff.ly/9UBLVXo

NEW on Wonkhe: Billy Wong and Zach Spire look at how the spaces of university signal who belongs, and who is expected to already know the rules buff.ly/7tffg21

NEW on Wonkhe: Stephen Isherwood explains that despite the challenges of measuring career outcomes, they remain central to student interests, value for money and informed choice buff.ly/af1JB0W

NEW on Wonkhe: Whose degree is it anyway? buff.ly/NfOS9a8

NEW on Wonkhe: Annie Bell and Damayanti Chatterjee present new modelling that explores not just the potential for growth in international student numbers, but also whether that growth would be stable buff.ly/vhm0Vdl

NEW on Wonkhe: How does our market based higher education system in England work - as a market? David Kernohan gets into the detail buff.ly/vGhAwdY

NEW on Wonkhe: The mental health taskforce has no budget buff.ly/9Fw32me

Last week on Wonkhe: It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to the chancellor

Higher education finances are "under review" - but what does that mean?

It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to...

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Last week on Wonkhe: Debbie McVitty was at the annual gathering of university vice chancellors and finds a sector eager to prove its value – but are ministers on the same page?

Universities' social licence is founded on their impact – but funding matters too

Debbie McVitty was at the annual gathering of university vice chancellors and finds a sector eager to prove its value – but are ministers on the same page?

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Last week on Wonkhe: Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere

Counting the cost of teaching higher education in England

Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere

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Last week on Wonkhe: As the UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ at around £570 million a year, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector's five-year record of underspending mobility money should worry everyone – and that the domestic version of the problem is bigger

We need to talk about mobility

As the UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ at around £570 million a year, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector's five-year record of underspending mobility money should worry everyone – and that the domestic...

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Last week on Wonkhe: When a far-right march was planned near her flat, her university said nothing. Cynthia Keza Birikundavyi argues that setting a threshold for communication is an administrative adjustment, not a political act

What does student safety mean in a more hostile world?

When a far-right march was planned near her flat, her university said nothing. Cynthia Keza Birikundavyi argues that setting a threshold for communication is an administrative adjustment, not a political...

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Last week on Wonkhe: OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts

Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?

OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts

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Last week on Wonkhe: Soheil Davari and Rashaad Shabab argue that a joined-up curriculum doesn't happen by accident, someone needs to actively hold the pieces together

Programme coherence is everyone’s responsibility

Soheil Davari and Rashaad Shabab argue that a joined-up curriculum doesn't happen by accident, someone needs to actively hold the pieces together

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Last week on Wonkhe: Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness

Getting it right after harm is done

Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness

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Last week on Wonkhe: Panos Sousounis argues that if science diplomacy is shaping who UK universities partner with, international strategy teams need three separate assessments running simultaneously

The logic behind the international partnership map

Panos Sousounis argues that if science diplomacy is shaping who UK universities partner with, international strategy teams need three separate assessments running simultaneously

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Last week on Wonkhe: With Washington's Supreme Court finding a university owed a duty over a fraternity hazing death, Bob Abrahart argues England's duty of care debate has skipped the prior question of what the university-student relationship actually is

A Washington fraternity ruling exposes the gap in England's duty of care law

With Washington's Supreme Court finding a university owed a duty over a fraternity hazing death, Bob Abrahart argues England's duty of care debate has skipped the prior question of what the university-student...

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Last week on Wonkhe: Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration

The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn't

Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration

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Last week on Wonkhe: Luke Green and Liz Shutt make the case that to make devolution a success, civic universities need to partner more and lead less

Universities must be partners in the devolution agenda

Luke Green and Liz Shutt make the case that to make devolution a success, civic universities need to partner more and lead less

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Last week on Wonkhe: The government's reply to the Treasury Committee's inquiry on student loans accepts some wording changes and rejects the rest. Jim Dickinson finds it answering a fairness question with a solvency one

Student loans are still broken and unfair

The government's reply to the Treasury Committee's inquiry on student loans accepts some wording changes and rejects the rest. Jim Dickinson finds it answering a fairness question with a solvency one

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Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag is about a merger to create a new university in the south east

Higher education postcard: South East Technological University, Ireland

This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag is about a merger to create a new university in the south east

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Last week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine the government’s response to criticism of the student loan system.

Podcast: Loans, Free speech

This week on the podcast we examine the government’s response to criticism of the student loan system. With ministers still describing the system as unfair and in need of reform, what might meaningful...

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This week on Wonkhe: Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration

The tone has changed on free speech, but the architecture hasn't

Seating plans, institutional neutrality, and complaints that feed straight into regulation. Jim Dickinson picks through OfS's consultation on the free speech conditions of registration

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This week on Wonkhe: Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness

Getting it right after harm is done

Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness

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This week on Wonkhe: It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to the chancellor

Higher education finances are "under review" - but what does that mean?

It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to...

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This week on Wonkhe: As the UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ at around £570 million a year, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector's five-year record of underspending mobility money should worry everyone – and that the domestic version of the problem is bigger

We need to talk about mobility

As the UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ at around £570 million a year, Jim Dickinson argues that the sector's five-year record of underspending mobility money should worry everyone – and that the domestic...

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