NEW on Wonkhe: Peer review of grant funding is time consuming, expensive, inefficient and yet seemingly invulnerable. James Coe looks to a new report for a door out of the gilded cage. buff.ly/EDudFfK
NEW on Wonkhe: Applications are finally open for the Ministry of Defence-led network of universities. Michael Salmon puts it in its policy context buff.ly/rn3Glj5
NEW on Wonkhe: Students caught up in the weekend delivery loans crisis have been given a reprieve. buff.ly/TW1h7LQ
NEW on Wonkhe: DfE enacts the free speech rules it planned to last year buff.ly/tuUahhn
NEW on Wonkhe: Iceland's higher education system was built to serve a national purpose. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall report from Reykjavík – and ask what the UK's system is for when the salary returns stop adding up buff.ly/TgFGk3J
NEW on Wonkhe: In Wales and Scotland, students were promised a maintenance floor. The promise is broken buff.ly/fPDydZq
NEW on Wonkhe: Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world buff.ly/Xak4GNn
NEW on Wonkhe: Stepped student loan repayments sound progressive. Jim Dickinson argues they distract from an accounting structure that structurally rewards chancellors for squeezing graduates and hides the lack of public subsidy buff.ly/b2UV6Jx
NEW on Wonkhe: Kashan Pirzada explains how leadership systems which prioritise immediate and countable outputs may generate short-term activity without longer-term impact buff.ly/VqDqvUS
NEW on Wonkhe: Joanne Caldwell argues that the sector can no longer afford to ignore the enormous contribution that professional services staff can make to doctoral education buff.ly/MJy6OTu
NEW on Wonkhe: A new ongoing condition of registration gives a familiar refresh to ongoing registration conditions on consumer protections. David Kernohan has the detail buff.ly/hxkZEx1
NEW on Wonkhe: Jane Robinson breaks down the barriers between global ambitions and civic responsibility in growing the UK's economy buff.ly/qwaseho
Last week on Wonkhe: Kashan Pirzada explains how leadership systems which prioritise immediate and countable outputs may generate short-term activity without longer-term impact
Last week on Wonkhe: Stepped student loan repayments sound progressive. Jim Dickinson argues they distract from an accounting structure that structurally rewards chancellors for squeezing graduates and hides the lack of public subsidy
Last week on Wonkhe: As OfS tells ethics committees to rein themselves in and prioritise academic freedom, Joe Mintz makes the case that values can't be wished away – they have to be argued over in public
Last week on Wonkhe: Jakob Feldfos Christensen asks what your equality, diversity, and inclusion approaches need in an increasingly complex and unstable world
Last week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we're in Reykjavik as the Office for Students (OfS) opens a consultation on a whole new approach to student protection
NEW on Wonkhe: Comparing vice chancellor pay to FTSE listed company CEOs buff.ly/QFR7ojj
NEW on Wonkhe: What’s the deal with Romanian nationals and student finance? buff.ly/4Cm6nkZ
NEW on Wonkhe: Pre-arrival questionnaires highlight entrant preparedness buff.ly/inqZth5
This week on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast we're in Reykjavik as the Office for Students (OfS) opens a consultation on a whole new approach to student protection
This week on Wonkhe: Joanne Caldwell argues that the sector can no longer afford to ignore the enormous contribution that professional services staff can make to doctoral education
This week on Wonkhe: For Jo Irving-Walton, generative AI use is just one angle in a wider dopamine problem in higher education
This week on Wonkhe: Stepped student loan repayments sound progressive. Jim Dickinson argues they distract from an accounting structure that structurally rewards chancellors for squeezing graduates and hides the lack of public subsidy
This week on Wonkhe: Entrepreneurship education is of increasing importance, yet Aleksandra Bavdaz and Rami Al-Sharif have noticed that gendered expectations in the classroom still shape who sees themselves as a future entrepreneur
This week on Wonkhe: As OfS tells ethics committees to rein themselves in and prioritise academic freedom, Joe Mintz makes the case that values can't be wished away – they have to be argued over in public
This week on Wonkhe: Jane Robinson breaks down the barriers between global ambitions and civic responsibility in growing the UK's economy
NEW on Wonkhe: Sophie Duncan and Paul Manners have run out of patience with the idea that making a greater impact with research is about messaging it more effectively. For them, it's about a different kind of relationship altogether — one built on trust and mutual benefit. buff.ly/2fRSURn
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag cooks up a treat! buff.ly/0IIGB61
NEW on Wonkhe: Entrepreneurship education is of increasing importance, yet Aleksandra Bavdaz and Rami Al-Sharif have noticed that gendered expectations in the classroom still shape who sees themselves as a future entrepreneur buff.ly/gzOuTr2