Podcast: Minimum entry, Governance, Working class boys and girls
This week on the podcast reports suggest the Department for Education is considering restricting access to the student loan book to those who hold a pass in GCSE English
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Labour’s EU reset has a university problem
Labour wants an EU reset but won't touch tuition fees. Luca Lombardo warns the two ambitions are inseparable – and that the political window to act is already closing
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Visibility isn’t enough for Asian women in academia
Being visible in higher education doesn’t always mean you are being heard. Soheon Kim and Swati Garg think through the issues
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Higher education postcard: Queens’ College Cambridge
This week’s postcard from Hugh Jones’ postbag brings you one of higher education’s confusing apostrophes
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Turing Scheme: apply for funding for international placements
Information on applying for funding for international study and work placements for schools, further education providers and higher education providers.
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Guidance: Turing Scheme: international placements, 2026 to 2027
Guidance on funding for international study and work placements through the Turing Scheme, for schools, further education and higher education providers.
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Opportunity is shaped by where you live, who you are, and how much money your family had
David Kernohan reads into a new report from the Sutton Trust on how ethnicity, gender, place, and poverty combine to determine opportunity
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Music careers aren’t self-made. They’re built in a village
Your next favourite pop star probably studied at a conservatoire or specialist music college - but you’d never know it, says Damian Morgan
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Transparency data: Open academies, free schools, studio schools and UTCs
Information on all academies, free schools, studio schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) open in England, and those in the process of opening.
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The Code of Higher Education Governance has had a complete rewrite
The Committee of University Chairs has refreshed the higher education governance code. Iain Cornish, who chaired the review’s steering committee, sets out what’s changed and why
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National productivity and wellbeing is the output of our creative capacity
Creative degrees may not attract the largest graduate salaries, but you can't achieve critical national priorities without creative skills. Randall Whittaker and Stephen Farrier make the case for investment in creativity
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Are we designing graduates for performance or personal transformation?
What would a pedagogy of uncertainty look like? Andrew Doyle and Fredrick Agboma have been getting students to think.
