NEW on Wonkhe: Ahead of the upcoming Kortext spring webinar David Kernohan spoke to panellist and Solent University, Southampton librarian Amy Stubbing about how universities can make better use of library data on student activity wonkhe.com/blogs/library-…

NEW on Wonkhe: Assessment is learning, and students value it. Katy Burgess explains the psychology of testing wonkhe.com/blogs/why-we-s…

'Normal people'

At the risk of sounding unaware, there's something wrong with how kids from disadvantaged backgrounds work hard to go to Oxford, to endure a stressful uni experience only for job applications to not even allow mention of university based on some stereotypes and generalisations

NEW on Wonk Corner: We have less data on the Graduate route than we thought we did wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/we…

NEW on Wonk Corner: Onward wants to cut international recruitment wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/on…

NEW on Wonkhe: Fresh from their latest bus tour to the continent, Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott try to identify why students in the UK seem to depend on benevolence rather than rights and protections wonkhe.com/blogs/why-does…

NEW on Wonkhe: Cranfield University vice chancellor explains how the Graduate Route enables a pipeline of highly skilled students to work with British industry wonkhe.com/blogs/changing…

NEW on Wonkhe: Nishan Canagarajah shares the work the University of Leicester is doing to coalesce investment, effort, and support to provide new opportunities in northwest Leicester wonkhe.com/blogs/how-univ…

NEW on Wonkhe: Freeports are one of the government's flagship place-based economic policies. James Coe investigates lessons from the ways that universities have got involved wonkhe.com/blogs/freeport…

Fun afternoon at the North London Derby - shame about the result but it didn’t ruin our day #COYS

Tortured Policy Wonk Department Mel B OBE says cream first

Great British Bake Off just confirmed it's cream on first.

Two words: Ana. Mardoll.

This week on Wonkhe: After a Universities UK campaign highlighted the success of first generation students, Sunday Blake and Alaya Holloway look the complexities and nuances of supporting such a diverse group. @sundaymargot wonkhe.com/blogs/its-not-…

**URGENT** There is a bad patch of believed Heroin going around North Devon. It is making people very ill. We have declared a Major Incident. Please check on any known drug users. Do not take any controlled substances...we will update shortly

NEW on Wonkhe: Kicking off a new series on what we can learn from how General Election manifestos have engaged with higher education, Adam Matthews reflects on the changing political fortunes of universities in the past 80 years wonkhe.com/blogs/how-high…

NEW on Wonkhe: Where did all the students go, and can we get them back? Wonkhe's new Community and Policy Officer Mack Marshall argues that working out who the 'we' is going to be essential to fix the sector's engagement problem Mack (he/him) wonkhe.com/blogs/why-aren…

NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’s postbag takes us to Durham’s first mixed-sex college wonkhe.com/blogs/higher-e…

NEW on Wonkhe: Where did all the students go, and can we get them back? Wonkhe's new Community and Policy Officer Mack Marshall argues that working out who the 'we' is going to be essential to fix the sector's engagement problem wonkhe.com/blogs/why-aren…