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Erasmus+ is back. But will it bring apprentices with it?
19+ hour, 23+ min ago (1019+ words) Maia Chankseliani is Professor of Comparative and International Education at the University of Oxford On 15 April 2026, the UK and EU signed the legal text to bring Britain back into Erasmus+, the flagship exchange programme. For decades, it has sent hundreds…...
Specialised, consolidated and mission-focused: a new model for mergers emerges
1+ week, 3+ day ago (432+ words) James Coe is Associate Editor for research and innovation at Wonkhe, and a senior partner at Counterculture For someone who makes a career out of having a relatively good understanding of what is going on in higher education and then…...
Higher education postcard: the Radcliffe Camera
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (217+ words) Hugh Jones is a freelance HE consultant. You'll find a daily #Higher Education Postcard if you follow him on Bluesky Oxford and Cambridge both have iconic views. For Cambridge, it's the view of King's College Chapel from the backs; for…...
The Brown student in the White room
1+ week, 1+ day ago (964+ words) Akrit Ghimire is Vice President Community at Edinburgh University Students" Association. During my time as an elected officer, I once had to explain how a sculpture could show both sustainability and diversity together and that the two themes were not…...
We need to transform learning for a wicked world
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (1061+ words) Andrew Crosbie is Director at the Collective Impact Agency CIC The wheels are starting to come off. Cracks are appearing in the stories we were raised to believe, and the structures that seemed immovable and certain are beginning to crumble…...
Student AI use is being driven by deteriorating student-staff relationships
1+ week, 2+ day ago (553+ words) Lewis Eves is an Associate Lecturer in International Relations at Sheffield Hallam University and a Teaching Associate in International Relations at the University of Nottingham Gilsun Jeong is a Teaching Associate in Politics at the University of Nottingham Nandor Revesz…...
More straw clutching from the free speech absolutists
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (1726+ words) Jim is an Associate Editor (SUs) at Wonkhe His argument over the judgement in The University of Sussex v The Office for Students runs like this: Imagine a public footpath. The local authority has two rules. First, if the path…...
Subject cold spots are growing. We need to address the root causes
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (855+ words) Ruair" Cullen is the Senior Observatory Lead in the Higher Education & Research policy team at the British Academy Higher education "cold spots" aren't new, but they're becoming harder to ignore. Since 2024, our team at the British Academy has tracked cold…...
Finding 2024-25 delivery partnerships
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (443+ words) David Kernohan is Deputy Editor of Wonkhe In October of last year, the Office for Students released a dataset that many of us had been asking for for a long time. It concerned what should be, on the face of…...
Settlement changes would particularly affect academics, MAC suggests
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (491+ words) Michael Salmon is News Editor at Wonkhe The Migration Advisory Committee's report on the factors that influence how long skilled migrants stay in the UK " Who stays, who leaves? " looks at a decade of data from holders of the skilled…...