Home of the higher education debate www.wonkhe.com Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mwaltoglmu25NEW 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/5Hrswli24 Sep 2026 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwaltoglmu25https://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mwalkqx7kh2zNEW 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/bBrUQ3s24 Sep 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwalkqx7kh2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mwalca47x32aNEW on Wonkhe: The voter consensus forming around Burnham’s education agenda has little time for universities buff.ly/q8N95lN24 Sep 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwalca47x32ahttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mw633ruaoz2zNEW 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/fV6zxNS23 Sep 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw633ruaoz2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mw62t6b4r72jNEW 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/9UBLVXo23 Sep 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw62t6b4r72jhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mw3kmvmkpb2jNEW 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/7tffg2122 Sep 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw3kmvmkpb2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mw3ke7ufcq2lNEW 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/af1JB0W22 Sep 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw3ke7ufcq2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvznytxdie2jNEW on Wonkhe: Whose degree is it anyway? buff.ly/NfOS9a821 Sep 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvznytxdie2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvz3bpu5b62tNEW 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/vhm0Vdl21 Sep 2026 06:25 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvz3bpu5b62thttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvz2yrsphm2qNEW on Wonkhe: How does our market based higher education system in England work - as a market? David Kernohan gets into the detail buff.ly/vGhAwdY21 Sep 2026 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvz2yrsphm2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvz2pxzhjb2nNEW on Wonkhe: The mental health taskforce has no budget buff.ly/9Fw32me21 Sep 2026 06:15 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvz2pxzhjb2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvz2gvpg3o2tLast 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 https://buff.ly/mYf3n3e21 Sep 2026 06:10 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvz2gvpg3o2thttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvz25xbkc62uLast 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? https://buff.ly/fSyxK9Z21 Sep 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvz25xbkc62uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvyzvyj7n723Last 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 https://buff.ly/D0cu2Xu21 Sep 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvyzvyj7n723https://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxyexfvvi2eLast 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 https://buff.ly/Iq88LKn20 Sep 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxyexfvvi2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxuzqyo2l2lLast 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 https://buff.ly/5lpmG4O20 Sep 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxuzqyo2l2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxrov2vuj2eLast week on Wonkhe: OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts https://buff.ly/xorNN3s20 Sep 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxrov2vuj2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxod6hgel2uLast 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 https://buff.ly/VTmQPuV20 Sep 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxod6hgel2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxkyxbs6v2kLast week on Wonkhe: Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness https://buff.ly/lGeo4KO20 Sep 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxkyxbs6v2khttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxhlv3z4v2mLast 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 https://buff.ly/8buLJ5r20 Sep 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxhlv3z4v2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxeb2molk2cLast 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 https://buff.ly/NgUvffL20 Sep 2026 14:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxeb2molk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvxavo4v4f2qLast 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 https://buff.ly/iCV7Ngs20 Sep 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvxavo4v4f2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvx5k24olc2uLast 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 https://buff.ly/iEfF0ul20 Sep 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvx5k24olc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvx2725dn22tLast 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 https://buff.ly/huI1ePx20 Sep 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvx2725dn22thttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvwwtmwcpk23Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag is about a merger to create a new university in the south east https://buff.ly/OMDTLRC20 Sep 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvwwtmwcpk23https://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvwti36hz42eLast week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we examine the government’s response to criticism of the student loan system. https://buff.ly/qRoxqEh20 Sep 2026 09:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvwti36hz42ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvvhwbyeg62qThis 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 https://buff.ly/iCV7Ngs19 Sep 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvhwbyeg62qhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvvekwbcj32nThis week on Wonkhe: Jo Nuckley explains why responding to reports of harassment and sexual misconduct calls for a different kind of fairness https://buff.ly/lGeo4KO19 Sep 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvekwbcj32nhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvvb7p2shc2uThis 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 https://buff.ly/mYf3n3e19 Sep 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvvb7p2shc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wonkhe.bsky.social/post/3mvv5txwneh2nThis 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 https://buff.ly/Iq88LKn19 Sep 2026 17:00 +0000at://did:plc:d266ck6vym2irmjwpfo2dcfx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvv5txwneh2n