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Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge
Higher education postcard: Peterhouse, Cambridge
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge
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November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge
Last week on Wonkhe: Hybrid and portfolio careers are an increasingly common route through graduate employment. For Miri Firth, the data still needs to catch up
Why ideas of graduate success need to catch up with portfolio careers
Hybrid and portfolio careers are an increasingly common route through graduate employment. For Miri Firth, the data still needs to catch up
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November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: Hybrid and portfolio careers are an increasingly common route through graduate employment. For Miri Firth, the data still needs to catch up
Last week 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
Five challenges faced by the Welsh tertiary sector
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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November 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Last week 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
Last week on Wonkhe: UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
The post-matrix university – trust, relevance, and the politics of plugging back in
UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
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November 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
Last week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine how Budget 2025 reshapes the university funding model
Podcast: Budget, R&D, Scotland’s tertiary bill
With Ken Sloan, Vice-Chancellor and CEO at Harper Adams University, Debbie McVitty, Editor at Wonkhe, David Kernohan, Deputy Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine how Budget 2025 reshapes the university funding model
Last week on Wonkhe: The time when most students progressed straight from school to university is long gone. For Peter Gray student financial support needs to adapt to meet real needs
The future of financial hardship support needs to be flexible
The time when most students progressed straight from school to university is long gone. For Peter Gray student financial support needs to adapt to meet real needs
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November 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: The time when most students progressed straight from school to university is long gone. For Peter Gray student financial support needs to adapt to meet real needs
Last week on Wonkhe: The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget
A government running out of road still sets the economic weather for higher education
The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget
Last week on Wonkhe: 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. David Kernohan has the charts
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. David...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: 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. David Kernohan has the charts
Last week on Wonkhe: 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 future.
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...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: 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 future.
Last week on Wonkhe: During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
Student engagement does not work if institutions are stuck in survival mode
During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
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November 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
Last week on Wonkhe: International students with caring responsibilities face additional challenges. Scott Rawlinson sets out ways in which universities can provide practical support
Making higher education work for international student carers
International students with caring responsibilities face additional challenges. Scott Rawlinson sets out ways in which universities can provide practical support International students with caring responsibilities...
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November 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Last week on Wonkhe: International students with caring responsibilities face additional challenges. Scott Rawlinson sets out ways in which universities can provide practical support
Last week 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
Skills England has a new way to talk about skills, and the sector needs to listen
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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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Last week 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
This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine how Budget 2025 reshapes the university funding model
Podcast: Budget, R&D, Scotland’s tertiary bill
With Ken Sloan, Vice-Chancellor and CEO at Harper Adams University, Debbie McVitty, Editor at Wonkhe, David Kernohan, Deputy Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor at Wonkhe.
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine how Budget 2025 reshapes the university funding model
This week on Wonkhe: UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
The post-matrix university – trust, relevance, and the politics of plugging back in
UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This week on Wonkhe: UEL vice chancellor Amanda Broderick asks how universities can reimagine their value in a world where young people's trust in institutions is ebbing
This week on Wonkhe: 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. David Kernohan has the charts
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. David...
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This week on Wonkhe: 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. David Kernohan has the charts
This week on Wonkhe: International students with caring responsibilities face additional challenges. Scott Rawlinson sets out ways in which universities can provide practical support
Making higher education work for international student carers
International students with caring responsibilities face additional challenges. Scott Rawlinson sets out ways in which universities can provide practical support International students with caring responsibilities...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This week on Wonkhe: International students with caring responsibilities face additional challenges. Scott Rawlinson sets out ways in which universities can provide practical support
This week on Wonkhe: As maximum fees increase for English undergraduates, Jim Dickinson explores how new price transparency rules under consumer law change the rules on what universities must tell students about the cost of HE
Universities now need to be much clearer about the total cost of a course
As maximum fees increase for English undergraduates, Jim Dickinson explores how new price transparency rules under consumer law change the rules on what universities must tell students about the cost...
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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week on Wonkhe: As maximum fees increase for English undergraduates, Jim Dickinson explores how new price transparency rules under consumer law change the rules on what universities must tell students about the cost of HE
This week on Wonkhe: During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
Student engagement does not work if institutions are stuck in survival mode
During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This week on Wonkhe: During challenging times, genuine student engagement often feels difficult, or impossible, to deliver. Jonathan Eaton and Helena Lim confront the dragon at the gates.
This week on Wonkhe: 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 future. wonkhe.com/blogs/budget...
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...
wonkhe.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
This week on Wonkhe: 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 future. wonkhe.com/blogs/budget...
This week 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
Five challenges faced by the Welsh tertiary sector
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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November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This week 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
This week on Wonkhe: The time when most students progressed straight from school to university is long gone. For Peter Gray student financial support needs to adapt to meet real needs
The future of financial hardship support needs to be flexible
The time when most students progressed straight from school to university is long gone. For Peter Gray student financial support needs to adapt to meet real needs
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November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: The time when most students progressed straight from school to university is long gone. For Peter Gray student financial support needs to adapt to meet real needs
This week on Wonkhe: The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget
A government running out of road still sets the economic weather for higher education
The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget...
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: The sector’s financial health is ever more intertwined with decisions around public spending, borrowing, taxation and the labour market. Michael Salmon thinks about the big picture ahead of the Budget
This week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge
Higher education postcard: Peterhouse, Cambridge
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge
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November 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to early Cambridge
This week on Wonkhe: Hybrid and portfolio careers are an increasingly common route through graduate employment. For Miri Firth, the data still needs to catch up
Why ideas of graduate success need to catch up with portfolio careers
Hybrid and portfolio careers are an increasingly common route through graduate employment. For Miri Firth, the data still needs to catch up
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: Hybrid and portfolio careers are an increasingly common route through graduate employment. For Miri Firth, the data still needs to catch up
This week on Wonkhe: A new dawn has broken has it not? James Coe looks at the politics of the government’s new approach to research and a change of direction for UKRI
A change in approach means research may never be the same again
A new dawn has broken has it not? James Coe looks at the politics of the government’s new approach to research and a change of direction for UKRI
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November 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: A new dawn has broken has it not? James Coe looks at the politics of the government’s new approach to research and a change of direction for UKRI