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NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson reviews what's about to happen with the great boomer wealth transfer - and why it will destroy the social mobility power of HE https://lnkd.in/ehWRh9yk

New on Wonkhe: England's higher education regulator has published highlights of research into what students think, want and expect. David Kernohan and Jim Dickinson look into John Blake's i's https://lnkd.in/erYdeTm7 "It should allow students and their representatives to test whether the issues they’ve spoken on - on accommodation, on support, on their rights, and on value for money - will be acted on meaningfully by a regulator that is starting to realise just how important keeping promises to students is."

New on Wonkhe: It’s HeartUnions week – David Conway explains why trade unions should be at the heart of higher education https://lnkd.in/eDs_ZhGn "I love trade unions and higher education. Given that unions primarily receive media coverage when their members take industrial action, it’s easy to forget that, at their heart, they are solidarity movements, whose campaigns have driven social change."

New on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag comes to you straight from the 1960s culture wars https://lnkd.in/e8FumTsM "It’s 31 March 1949, and Winston Churchill, now Leader of the Opposition, was visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was impressed by what he saw, and thought that the UK should have its own version, a postgraduate university focusing on science and technology."

New on Wonkhe: Are students perusing the rankings or combing through NSS spreadsheets when choosing universities? Emmanouil Noikokyris and Emanuela Nova listen to and learn from the experiences of applicants https://lnkd.in/eZUvrywp "And perhaps, it will inspire us to create a learning environment that truly supports them, one that meets them where they are and helps them get where they are going."

New on Wonkhe: This week on the podcast universities failing to promote diversity will face funding cuts – so said The Times. We chat through the controversy building around the REF. https://lnkd.in/ed3TrznP "With Shitij Kapur, Vice Chancellor and President at King's College London, Jess Lister, Director (Education) at Public First, Debbie McVitty, Editor at Wonkhe and presented by Mark Leach, Editor-in-Chief at Wonkhe."

New on Wonkhe: Responding to the latest UCAS application data, Universities UK President Sally Mapstone reviews the case for continued growth in HE participation https://lnkd.in/eVTxFs7H "If the government were to work with universities, colleges and schools to ensure all young people have the same educational opportunities, we’d see more people in work and more people able to adapt as the labour market changes around them, earning higher wages and filling the jobs being created in exciting new sectors of the economy."

NEW on Wonkhe: Good news on Teachers’ Pension Scheme contributions (though only in Scotland) https://lnkd.in/emWcDkB3

NEW on Wonkhe: UCAS January deadline applicants and applications, 2025 https://lnkd.in/eKjHRZCd

New on Wonkhe: Fiona Lennoxsmith introduces Advance HE’s new leadership framework for the sector https://lnkd.in/eNgRyffV "We all know higher education has undergone a seismic shift from being a stable, traditional environment in the late twentieth century to a dynamic, complex and fast-moving sector. This transformation isn’t only in the UK – it’s global as well."