NEW on Wonkhe: DfE enacts the free speech rules it planned to last year buff.ly/tuUahhn

Comparing vice chancellor pay to FTSE listed company CEOs It's an order of magnitude thing.

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Beer fear: CO2 shortage could lead to state-backed beer at World Cup Brits face drinking state-backed beer during the Fifa World Cup as CO2 shortage fears leave breweries and boozers reliant on government gas.

Guys, you don't need to put external CO2 into beer.

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Drop me an email if you need a hand.

What's the deal with Romanian nationals and student finance? And why is Rupert Lowe so upset about it?

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If you need a time series - Nomis.

Hello - yes there is.

Using the custom data tool you can specify particular areas of interest (contiguous or otherwise) within a given category (eg so all would have to be LTLAs, or MSOAs, or whatever)

Occured that you could probably visit Wales' nine universities in a single working day. It'd be a slog, but it would be 7h25 according to bing maps.

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Their name is not Susan A new job-share chief executive for the Office for Students

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NEW on Wonkhe: Media literacy is changing – again. And this time the answers are not clear wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Financial sustainability in Welsh HE The bits that are bad are plausible, and the bits that are good prompt questions.

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What is Chris Philp saying about international students on London campuses? And on what basis?

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The graduate premium in a world of human capital It turns out there are other bits of government beyond DfE with an interest in graduate earnings. David Kernohan unexpectedly finds hope in neoclassical economic theory

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Classic Jim.

Tell me you've never been to Stroud without telling me you've never been to Stroud.

NEW on Wonkhe: The Canterbury meningitis response and its assumptions about student life buff.ly/9HSe78y

NEW on Wonkhe: Can judicial review force OfS to regulate bible colleges? buff.ly/jComiyT

Anything to avoid dealing with the wider questions of university finance.

NEW on Wonkhe: Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce buff.ly/FFKK9nM

A very considered and in depth write up of our @taso.org.uk reports published and launched at our conference today. We need better support for those most at risk of poor wellbeing, students who as the write up concludes are being effectively reached

Jeffrey Epstein agreed to fund 'mind-reading' experiments at UK university Documents in the Epstein files outlined plans for the convicted paedophile to donate £41,000 to a study of telepathy in London in 2017

This is a @brookmyre.bsky.social book, no? inews.co.uk/news/jeffrey...

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

This is very good by @dkernohan.bsky.social. There has always been something obscure about the OfS approach to enforcement and now access to funding streams (eg LLE gateway or future fee increases) hang on it we definitely need greater transparency. A day 1 issue for a new Chief Exec IMO.

I think that might in fact have been John McVie - the "Mac" bit of Fleetwood Mac?

NEW on Wonkhe: Student visa restrictions for four countries buff.ly/pR3uIgr

Buckets, innit.

Daft post to make a serious point. Discover Uni is a really valuable resource for applicants and others considering higher education, and we should maybe tell people about it on occasion.

You'll never believe(*) where I found that secret LEO salary data that "looking for growth" keep banging on about!

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* you will, in fact, probably not be that shocked.

NEW on Wonkhe: Plaid Cymru would launch an HE review in its first 100 days bit.ly/4aSOIHm

But if the government had stuck firm to what we might call the technocratic approach to work visas, then there would remain a clear opportunity to marshall evidence in favour of international recruitment (while at the same time thinking seriously about the role of the higher education system in training the UK’s scientific, social, technical and cultural workforce, which isn’t a bad side-effect). Instead, Labour has continued to gesture at this via increases to the cost of the visa system and employing overseas staff, while in other areas – particularly, but not only, in the routes to settlement consultation – it has given in to populist tendencies that have little to do with what’s best for the UK either as an economy or a society, and everything to do with its political anxieties and factional power struggles.

An excellent analysis of immigration and the UK HE system by @wonkhe.bsky.social

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