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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What changes in regulatory culture might follow from the University of Sussex’s High Court victory over OfS?
The recent High Court ruling on free speech has larger implications for how the sector in England is regulated. Richard Sykes and Sam Rose chart a potential way forward
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Higher education postcard: sack race
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to the playing fields again
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Podcast: TEF, student experience, demographics
This week on the podcast we examine the next phase of the Teaching Excellence Framework, as the Office for Students confirms its first decisions on a revised approach to assessing education quality
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Official Statistics: Widening Participation in Higher Education: 2026
Annual statistics on higher education initial entrants and estimated percentages of participation, including participation by student characteristics.
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First round of consultation on future TEF sees movement on the implications of a Bronze award
The Office for Students has published the outcomes of the first round of consultation on the future Teaching Excellence Framework. Debbie McVitty sets out what's new – and what's still to be decided
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North East England’s new investment fund is a template for university spinout success
Universities in the North East of England have set up a fund dedicated to university spinout creation. Northumbria University vice chancellor Andy Long explains the thinking behind it
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Students are coping better because the system is demanding less
Signs of genuine recovery in student experience appear in this year's Student Academic Experience Survey. Jim Dickinson argues the data tells a more constrained story – one where value, expectations and withdrawal form a single gradient, and money sits at its root
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Low expectations aren’t the same as high satisfaction in student housing
With OfS leading on headline satisfaction scores, Jim Dickinson reads an underlying research report on student housing – and finds a regulator that has mistaken tolerance for quality
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AI can help providers read and act on the student feedback they never usually get to
Thousands of open-text survey comments go unread every cycle. Daniel Robson and Helena Lim argue that AI can help universities hear what students are actually saying, and act before the next survey closes.
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Universities need to find a way past the current atmosphere of permanent crisis
A decade of shocks has left higher education working conditions feeling like one firefight after another. For Doug Specht, leadership decision-making must recover some degree of strategic calm
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Being a department head has never been more complex
The head of department role is arguably where the pressures shaping higher education are most visible. Tomasz Liskiewicz and Toby Peyton-Jones emphasise the need for leadership capacity
