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NEW on Wonkhe: There are wide-ranging personal, academic and institutional benefits of extracurricular activities. Robert Phillips urges universities to promote and tailor them to underrepresented groups buff.ly/EPEL5JV

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NEW on Wonkhe: Sunday Blake argues that Stephen Graham’s Adolescence proves that creative arts education can drive societal change buff.ly/UxYVKCm

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NEW on Wonkhe: Is it possible to have a better student academic experience with fewer academic staff? Probably not, but Jim Dickinson looks north to see how one university handled savage cuts in fascinating ways buff.ly/Jo9x9S7

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NEW on Wonkhe: Iryna Kushnir and Ellis Richards find that for Ukrainian refugees English higher education is both a place of opportunity and of persistent challenge buff.ly/IRx9h4M

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NEW on Wonkhe: Adam Waddingham argues that the new Sexual Misconduct Survey marks a necessary shift toward confronting and reforming how UK universities become safer buff.ly/TLl5mTz

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NEW on Wonkhe: Madhavi Dubey calls for a move away from traditional assessments and towards inclusive, multimodal approaches that reflect diverse backgrounds and real-world skills. buff.ly/vwRcfBQ

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NEW on Wonkhe: How we know if OfS is any good wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

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NEW on Wonkhe: Antony Moss, Charlotte Ransom, Charlotte Adams,and Matt Myles-Brown share how they challenged traditional assumptions about assessment fairness buff.ly/OOJejj7

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NEW on Wonkhe: Harrison Stewart argues that only a coordinated effort between government, regulatory bodies and universities to confront the escalating climate crisis will do buff.ly/gQdDJLM

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NEW on Wonkhe: DfE and the issue of concentration in the financial crisis buff.ly/5o4XD4g

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Last week on Wonkhe: Sussex is formally challenging OfS' £600k free speech fine. Jim Dickinson explains the case that could redefine the limits of university autonomy and regulatory oversight

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Last week on Wonkhe: Personal tutoring requires specialist academic support which is only possible with access to the right data. Rachel Maxwell and Steve Briggs explore what this model could look like

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Last week on Wonkhe: For IHE chief executive Alex Proudfoot, it is time to strengthen all academic partnerships, not just some

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Last week on Wonkhe: Place-based partnerships between FE and HE must be deep and equitable if they are to be sustainable, argues Sam Parrett

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Last week on Wonkhe: UUKi's Harry Anderson has some ideas for the UK government on developing a more sensible approach to immigration policy through its forthcoming white paper

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Last week on Wonkhe: A new briefing from OfS offers learning from handling institutional closure. Matthew Howling, Neil Smyth, and Richard Sykes explain why even the best-intentioned insight can't mitigate for a legal vacuum

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Last week on Wonkhe: Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

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Last week on Wonkhe: Michelle Morgan and Jonathan Neves introduce a sector-wide pilot of a tool to find out more about students and their expectations before they arrive at university

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Last week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast it’s our Easter special – and we’re diving into the highlights from The Secret Life of Students

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Last week on Wonkhe: Teachers and parents in the areas where less young people go to university agree that the cost of study is a huge problem. David Kernohan asks how widening participation can work under such conditions

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Last week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to one offspring of a university factory

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Last week on Wonkhe: With government spending focusing on defence, Jess Lister considers what challenges this presents to the higher education sector

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Last week on Wonkhe: England's universities regulator has set out new expectations in the event of future industrial action - but are they too late and too weak? Jim Dickinson considers the angles

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Last week on Wonkhe: As education budgets tighten and defence budgets loosen James Coe argues it's time for universities to abandon strategic ambiguity and make their positions clear

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Last week on Wonkhe: It’s World Autism Acceptance Month, and Hannah Breslin and Jon Rowlands reflect on their experiences of sharing and adapting to their late autism diagnoses

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Last week on Wonkhe: England's universities regulator has found measures designed to protect students to be outdated, insufficient and ineffective in practice. Jim Dickinson wonders if it will do anything about it

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Last week on Wonkhe: Kulvinder Singh explores how vital the classroom is for commuter students' belonging in a context of increasing transactional approaches to education.

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NEW on Wonkhe: Meridith Wilkinson makes the case for an inclusive space that empowers disabled women in universities to thrive buff.ly/R5hpkQU

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This week on Wonkhe: It’s World Autism Acceptance Month, and Hannah Breslin and Jon Rowlands reflect on their experiences of sharing and adapting to their late autism diagnoses

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This week on Wonkhe: Kulvinder Singh explores how vital the classroom is for commuter students' belonging in a context of increasing transactional approaches to education.

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This week on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to one offspring of a university factory

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This week on Wonkhe: Teachers and parents in the areas where less young people go to university agree that the cost of study is a huge problem. David Kernohan asks how widening participation can work under such conditions

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This week on Wonkhe: A new briefing from OfS offers learning from handling institutional closure. Matthew Howling, Neil Smyth, and Richard Sykes explain why even the best-intentioned insight can't mitigate for a legal vacuum

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This week on Wonkhe: Sussex is formally challenging OfS' £600k free speech fine. Jim Dickinson explains the case that could redefine the limits of university autonomy and regulatory oversight

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This week on Wonkhe: For IHE chief executive Alex Proudfoot, it is time to strengthen all academic partnerships, not just some

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This week on Wonkhe: England's universities regulator has found measures designed to protect students to be outdated, insufficient and ineffective in practice. Jim Dickinson wonders if it will do anything about it

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This week on Wonkhe: Michelle Morgan and Jonathan Neves introduce a sector-wide pilot of a tool to find out more about students and their expectations before they arrive at university

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This week on Wonkhe: UUKi's Harry Anderson has some ideas for the UK government on developing a more sensible approach to immigration policy through its forthcoming white paper

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This week on Wonkhe: Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

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This week on Wonkhe: Place-based partnerships between FE and HE must be deep and equitable if they are to be sustainable, argues Sam Parrett

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This week on Wonkhe: With government spending focusing on defence, Jess Lister considers what challenges this presents to the higher education sector

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This week on Wonkhe: England's universities regulator has set out new expectations in the event of future industrial action - but are they too late and too weak? Jim Dickinson considers the angles

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This week on Wonkhe: Personal tutoring requires specialist academic support which is only possible with access to the right data. Rachel Maxwell and Steve Briggs explore what this model could look like

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This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast it’s our Easter special – and we’re diving into the highlights from The Secret Life of Students

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This week on Wonkhe: As education budgets tighten and defence budgets loosen James Coe argues it's time for universities to abandon strategic ambiguity and make their positions clear

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NEW on Wonkhe: It’s World Autism Acceptance Month, and Hannah Breslin and Jon Rowlands reflect on their experiences of sharing and adapting to their late autism diagnoses buff.ly/uSGB5L6

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NEW on Wonkhe: Another baffling and incoherent mess for students – this time over housing buff.ly/v48GlqW

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NEW on Wonkhe: Does Welsh HE need a funding and governance review? buff.ly/9KbRUFq

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NEW on Wonkhe: Would reversing the dependant ban save UK HE? buff.ly/WLp13J9

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NEW on Wonkhe: Kulvinder Singh explores how vital the classroom is for commuter students' belonging in a context of increasing transactional approaches to education. buff.ly/hpcBfjU

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