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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 4h
What's notable about this is how it represents a significant break from the ways security services usually do this kind of thing: wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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Espionage alert sees MI5 take an interest in Chinese research collaboration
The security services put links between the China General Technology Research Institution and Chinese espionage into the public domain
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 23h
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Burnham’s quiet pledge
Was there something more substantial in the PM’s big speech for the sector?
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
cor!
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Healey just announced it. It's a good thing. Here's why.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For whatever reason, this 2018 Emile Sande remix really hits right this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U_K...
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Breathing Underwater (Matrix & Futurebound Remix)
YouTube video by Emeli Sandé - Topic
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Graduates now cover 84 per cent of the cost of a degree
The effects of little-noticed threshold freezes
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Union Learning Fund seems to be returning. A sensible, cheap, and proven investment in supporting mid-career reskilling or upskilling - and the thing that might make the LLE work properly. wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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A reinstated Unionlearn might be the missing piece of the LLE puzzle
It turns out that the people that advocate for workers rights might also be good at advocating for worker reskilling.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The latest from the Napier/SRUC/Queen Margaret collaboration.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you are thinking the government will move on HE finance this is the clearest clue yet on what might need to be done.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last week on Wonkhe: It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to the chancellor
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Higher education finances are "under review" - but what does that mean?
It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to...
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: How does our market based higher education system in England work - as a market? David Kernohan gets into the detail buff.ly/vGhAwdY
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Last seen around the time of the Augar review, KPMG has updated work on the costs of teaching. DK finds evidence of cost cutting everywhere buff.ly/D0cu2Xu
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"OpenAI could soon be selling young people a one-stop-shop for learning, credentials and a job, all heavily dependent on its tools." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Big AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along | Ella Hafermalz
Universities need protect their position in education so that students have an independent pathway to employment.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah, so that OfS dashboard: wonkhe.com/blogs/can-a-...
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Can a dashboard solve higher education planning?
OfS has built one dashboard to rule them all - DK has thoughts
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Debbie McVitty was at the annual gathering of university vice chancellors and finds a sector eager to prove its value – but are ministers on the same page? buff.ly/fSyxK9Z
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: It is the Treasury that gets to decide on any changes to sector funding, and it is the state of public finances that determines that there will be no major rethink. David Kernohan has been listening to the chancellor buff.ly/mYf3n3e
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Back at the theatre of dreams... #flyers
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Really like this piece.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
So I asked the OfS chat bot to write me a Petrarchan sonnet about TEF. I mean, it's a very average sonnet, but better than any I've managed to get out of formal OfS channels.
In the bright first line, we frame the guard.
A baseline for all, where standards rest;
Yet TEF, beyond that floor, may raise the yard,
And show where teaching blooms at its best.

We measure continuation, completion,
And progression into work or further study;
We pair those with student experience,
So evidence is steady, fair, and sturdy

Not every provider must join the race;
Some do so because the guidance requires,
Others may choose the path, and seek that grace
To sharpen practice, lifting their own aims and fires

Thus quality is kept, and excellence stirred:
A system for students, clear, measured, and heard.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A great idea that will absolutely definitely never cause any problems whatsoever.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Will a graduate jobs roadmap show us the right way? buff.ly/h7zKJYt
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Dunno who needs to hear this but the AI alignment discourse is largely marketing.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Which neatly demonstrates that intensively teaching knowledge-rich curricula towards high-stakes tests is a great way to ensure your country does well on PISA.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
From our "why didn't this happen when the conflict of interest became apparent" correspondent, Matt Clifford has resigned as Chair of ARIA.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tell me somebody is an early career researcher without telling me somebody is an early career researcher.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Healey now writing to all ministers about regulation. In brief: too many pointless consultations, too much time spent on minimising legal risk, too many judicial reviews. www.gov.uk/government/p... It's difficult not to think of one regulator in particular here...
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The Simplification and Agency of Government - Letter to all ministers
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
John Healey just announced a cut in the green book discount rate, from 3.5 per cent to 3.0 per cent. This slants the cost/benefits matrix more towards future benefits. Here's why that's a big deal for HE: wonkhe.com/blogs/discou...
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Michael Salmon @michaelsalmon0.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We've launched a new site this morning: Research Agenda. It's a new publication from the team behind Wonkhe which will cover news across the whole of the UK research system. Let us know what you think: www.researchagenda.news
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Research Agenda – research policy, news & intelligence
Research policy · News · Intelligence – original reporting, analysis and trackers for the people who make UK research happen. From the team behind Wonkhe.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Cambridge University examines conduct of academic suspended by Reform UK
James Orr, an associate professor, was shown in Channel 4 News footage apparently trying to sidestep electoral law
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: The Office for Students had a lot to learn from the recent high court judgement. David Kernohan looks at how it is trying to start that buff.ly/t7BEncC
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Are we going to get the 200 articles on James Orr then? Maybe read and interrogate the footnotes of his doctoral thesis? Is Cambridge going to have to issue out statements about its hiring standards?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you are missing silly season on this first day of September, I did a thing on why REF is a lot like competive brass band playing over the weekend - in honour of one of Chris McDonald's impressively niche hobbies. wonkhe.com/blogs/what-b...
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: New science minister Chris McDonald loves brass bands. Will he grow to love the REF in the same way? buff.ly/CMrX5Db
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I endorse this. Also: write a proper report, don't just send out a press release promising one (looking at you, Taxpayers Alliance!)
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hot take: sankey diagrams are awful.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
That Meta climbdown is unexpected, unprecedented, and enormous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy... It undoes (for children, at least) about a decade of dark-pattern social media orthodoxy.
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Are graduates facing the worst jobs market on record?
There's a thing in the Telegraph again. Sorry about this.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: On 3 November Wonkhe will host The Collaboration Question in London. Debbie McVitty assesses where the conversation has got to and where it needs to go from here buff.ly/AtmJYU5
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John Blake @johndavidblake.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Some thoughts on Burnham’s first few weeks and how post-18 education still lacks co-ordination even to be successfully devolved. Also, quite a bit about Vladimir Lenin. wonkhe.com/blogs/the-se...
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: It is the sector's most underused, and most misunderstood, data collection. David Kernohan wants to get it back on TRAC buff.ly/ffRlDFI
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Updated clearing stats for the first weekend after JCQ results day. Record clearing performance from high tariff providers: wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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A busy UCAS clearing for 2026
All the news from the UCAS clearing data releases
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Fraud headlines, franchise growth and a court defeat are dots that rarely get joined up. Jim Dickinson pulls together the data on the weekend delivery cohort - who was funded, by whom, and on whose terms buff.ly/Kdn6KWz
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"We have an injured rabbit also"
Without naming the film, say a line that would make any true fan immediately recognise the film
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New clearing data has dropped, and things do not look good for low and medium tariff providers: wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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A busy UCAS clearing for 2026
All the news from the UCAS clearing data releases
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: It's DK's annual data spectacular on JCQ (A level and other level three outside of Scotland) results day. buff.ly/SeZPTaL
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: Less students are choosing to study computing. BCS' Steve Pettifer explains why this trend, and the myths that underpin it, should concern us all buff.ly/CfjJsW3
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Happy JCQ day to all who celebrate! Here's everything I spotted in data released by JCQ, Ofqual, DfE, and UCAS. wonkhe.com/blogs/a-bump...
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A bumper crop of higher education entrants, but is university becoming less popular among the better off?
It's DK's annual data spectacular on JCQ (A level and other level three outside of Scotland) results day.
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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
NEW on Wonkhe: What commentators say about A levels and university every year buff.ly/ssW2NmV
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David Kernohan @dkernohan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Eclipse viewer, postcard, and leaflet from 11 August 1999
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