Degrees in media, screen, journalism, and communication studies often face public derision. Yet as Ruairí Cullen explains, these subjects show remarkable resilience and rising appeal, despite ongoing challenges

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Pausing BTEC defunding is a cost-neutral decision for an incoming government. Mary Curnock Cook assesses the impact of current policy on HE participation

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The amount of data available for analysis means that we can be surer that outreach programmes are performing. Paul Martin explains how

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TASO’s Luke Arundel has been thinking about how to communicate effectively with charts, with some examples from an access and participation context

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Shaun Le Boutillier and Harvey Woolf present research showing the wide variation in postgraduate taught assessment and course design across UK institutions

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Simon Emmett shows how perceptions of graduate employment opportunities shape international student choices

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Jamie Arrowsmith reflects on the long-term importance of international collaboration, engagement and exchange

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At a time when some critics say degrees are getting easier, Helena Vine highlights the importance of challenge in a new QAA analysis of TEF submissions

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What are we to make of the way providers presented thinking about educational gains in TEF? Janice Kay and Roscoe Hastings take a look at what the panel said

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The government's own international education strategy calls for diversification of international student recruitment, but as Griff Ryan explains, policy has since stymied that plan

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The Department for Education is cutting fees for classroom-based foundation years. Josh Freeman argues that firmer outcomes-based regulation would be a better approach

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Lifelong learning is a policy priority around the world - for Patrick Thomson there is a lot the UK can learn from practice further afield

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Rob Summers explains the results of UK higher education’s first large-scale randomised controlled trials of learning analytics-prompted interventions

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David Willetts has set out improvements to the science spending process. James Coe explains why the implications could be enormous

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Progress in widening access varies widely across England’s local areas, and the major political parties aren’t paying attention. Graeme Atherton asks what the levelling up agenda means, if not this

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New data analysis from David Kernohan shows that, contrary to popular belief, more staff may not be the most important way to keep students engaged and satisfied with their experience

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Clusters appear in nearly every big R&D strategy. James Coe sets out what they are, what we keep getting wrong about them, and how to make them better

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The numbers of universities that pay a living wage is growing year on year - Jonathan Grant urges those remaining to bite the bullet

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Many see student outcomes as the core of TEF. David Kernohan, Michael Salmon, and James Bagshaw investigate whether the sector has moved on from claiming the wins and explaining the problems

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Many provider TEF submissions describe innovative, co-created initiatives. Livia Scott, Sunday Blake, and Jim Dickinson
found that - in comparison - the student submissions told a slightly different story

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A crowdsourced analysis of TEF submissions shows that there is no single working definition of educational gain. Debbie McVitty, Adam Matthews, and James Coe don't find that to be a problem

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What's really going on with changes to undergraduate recruitment, and are these changes driven by finance, quality, or government choice? David Kernohan investigates

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Research from Emily Nordman and Chiara Horlin highlights the benefits neurodiverse students see from lecture recordings

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Alasdair Smith, former vice chancellor at the University of Sussex, explains the government decisions that have left parts of the sector facing a huge bill

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For the first time in almost a decade we have official figures on the income and expenditure of students. Jim Dickinson finds big differences between the haves and have-nots

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What’s a better predictor of alumni philanthropy – high grades or students’ union engagement? Manuel Souto-Otero and Michael Donnelly have crunched the numbers

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Analysis of research impact sheds light on the many ways that UK research makes a difference. A RAND Europe research team sets out the key findings of their new study

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Universities need to integrate climate as a strategic driver, argue Thomas Owen-Smith and Jen Summerton

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In the wake of Michelle Donelan's letter, David Kernohan analyses the legislation that governs the way ministers and UKRI get along

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Universities UK, the Medical Schools Council, and the Council of Deans of Health have responded to the NHS long-term workforce plan with a call for thoughtful reform of medical and healthcare provision and funding. David Kernohan has a read

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