Official Statistics: Higher-level learners in England: 2024 to 2025
Statistics providing an overview of higher-level learning across the further and higher education sectors in the academic year 2024 to 2025.
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Transparency data: Free schools and UTCs: successful applications
Details of successful applications for free schools and university technical colleges (UTCs) in the pre-opening stage.
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Guidance: Student accommodation: statement of expectations
How higher education providers should work strategically with their local authorities to ensure there is adequate accommodation for the individuals they recruit.
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Transparency data: Turing Scheme funding outcomes 2026 to 2027
The results of applications for funding for international study and work placements from schools, further education providers and higher education providers.
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A field guide to mergers in higher education
Richard Mills and Edward Briggs have supported mergers across higher education and beyond. Here's what they've learned about what makes them work – and what makes them fall apart
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If Scotland’s university funding problem is systemic, the response must be too
The Future Framework has measured the pressure on Scottish universities. Vicki Stott sets out how one alliance is testing whether autonomy and system-scale collaboration can coexist
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There’s nine more pieces for the Quality Code
Nic Beech and Clare Peddie outline the Quality Assurance Agency’s new advice and guidance chapters for the revised UK Quality Code
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Conversations about academic authorship need to be transparent
Madeleine Pownall and Mary Hausfeld call for research teams to be more explicit, equitable, and reflective about how they assign scholarly credit
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Before we ask students to belong, we should ask where
Billy Wong and Zach Spire look at how the spaces of university signal who belongs, and who is expected to already know the rules
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Why has the OfS downgraded graduate outcomes?
Stephen Isherwood explains that despite the challenges of measuring career outcomes, they remain central to student interests, value for money and informed choice
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It turns out the English higher education market is pretty strange
How does our market based higher education system in England work - as a market? David Kernohan gets into the detail
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Why international recruitment keeps chasing the wrong markets
Annie Bell and Damayanti Chatterjee present new modelling that explores not just the potential for growth in international student numbers, but also whether that growth would be stable
