NEW on Wonkhe: Julia Schoonover and Edward Yates ask whether greater attention paid to research culture could lead to moves to address academic precarity buff.ly/2Kle44J
NEW on Wonkhe: Julia Schoonover and Edward Yates ask whether greater attention paid to research culture could lead to moves to address academic precarity buff.ly/2Kle44J
NEW on Wonkhe: Matthew Beach and Joanne Yao have a bit of fun with playful approaches to mid-career academic mentoring and coaching buff.ly/Ge9epsK
NEW on Wonkhe: Unions ask for RPI plus three per cent wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Research Capital Investment Fund cuts ahead wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Rumours of Home Office action on the dramatic growth in research master’s provision continue to swirl. Yet for Michael Salmon there’s a wider question about where responsibility lies for postgraduate-level study buff.ly/ovtpH8C
NEW on Wonkhe: From GCSEs to university, expectations around “realism” vary by background. Hannah Rolley considers what this means for widening participation and students’ freedom to choose what they study buff.ly/exXlC4k
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores how the government’s latest social cohesion plans revive longstanding tensions on campus between Prevent compliance and free speech duties buff.ly/ytPJrbv
I mean this is crap for everyone but for international PGTs... it's a joke
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
NEW on Wonkhe: The Office for Students makes many regulatory decisions, but the evidence for these decisions is often hard to come by. David Kernohan asks whether more transparency would make for better regulation buff.ly/6p0Wwug
NEW on Wonkhe: Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology buff.ly/FpuWv43
NEW on Wonkhe: Traditional regulatory systems aren't set up to manage fast-moving technologies. Dmytro Chumachenko and Bo Kelestyn argue that Ukraine's pragmatic approach could hold lessons for others buff.ly/UGeXkdq
The other end of the see-saw springs to life I see www.gov.uk/government/n...
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NEW on Wonkhe: A new poll shows widespread dissatisfaction with student finance, but little agreement on the remedy. Jim Dickinson suggests the divide reflects competing mental models of the system buff.ly/d0V3LtQ
NEW on Wonkhe: Paul Wiltshire argues that influential reports on the graduate premium risk distorting public understanding of higher education’s financial value. buff.ly/gE5A5K5
NEW on Wonkhe: Kate Ayres’ experience of setting up a university choir showed her that staff wellbeing initiatives are most effective when they are co-produced buff.ly/WZbtmDk
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to Plymouth, via Chelsea, Battersea and a hovercraft buff.ly/YS1h0yY
NEW on Wonkhe: On the Graduate Journey, you can’t win wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Flexible learning needs flexible housing wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: The “visa brake” details wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: The Treasury exerts control where it can, while HE gets trashed in the process wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
NEW on Wonkhe: Sarah Chaytor says that when it comes to research and economic growth it's not just what universities say but what they do that matters buff.ly/j7vkN5w
NEW on Wonkhe: Vincenzo Raimo examines how the Bribery Act and the DMCC Act converge on the same uncomfortable reality – universities are legally responsible for the recruitment chains they benefit from buff.ly/zvyVdHa
NEW on Wonkhe: Student visa restrictions for four countries wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
"Unfair for our students to be burdened with so much debt so early on in their lives - Sarah Todd"