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The Wonkhe Show — 311 episodes
The end of the year show
Funding, student loans, NSSmass
PhD students, Burnham
Burnham, IFS on value of HE
Minimum entry, Governance, Working class boys and girls
TEF, student experience, demographics
Public opinion, Missing middle
Cuts, International, Friends
LLE, Milburn review
Starmergeddon, Insolvency, Europe
Antisemitism, AI and graduate jobs, universities and working class voters
Holyrood and Senedd elections, OfS v Sussex
System issues, research bidding, governance
Fair treatment, weekend delivery, Iceland
Groupwork, management apprenticeships, immigration
Secret life of students/AI special
Immigration brake, social cohesion, research capital
Renting, TNE, disability
Student finance, graduate premium, mental health
Student group claim, PRES, high streets
MI5, Labour, free speech
Student loans, research funding, Wales
Demand, Disabled students, medicine
International, UCAS data, student finance
Free speech, Scottish budget, Mickey Mouse
Erasmus+, student loans, Rhineland study tour
REF 2029, franchising crackdown, year in review
AI, uni finances, civic
Budget, R&D, Scotland’s Tertiary Bill
Reform UK, local skills, students at work
Access, governance, festival vibes
Banned algorithms, schools curriculum, Wales student finance
Public attitudes, housing, employability
Skills White Paper special
Wales, Franchising, Graduate Jobs
Student protest, TNE, Tory conference
Labour Conference 2025
Sexual misconduct, international levy, closures
Quality reforms, duty of candour, skills
Mergers, reshuffle
Podcast: Year ahead, International, Governance
AI and jobs, provider closure, UCAS figures
Student experience, LLE, civic
International, student leaders, metascience
Industrial strategy, cashpoint colleges, social mobility
Free speech guidance, R&D
Spending review, Tooling Up, REF, students at work
Efficiency, EDI, speed
Governance, apprenticeships, trends
Cuts, student suicide, widening access
Immigration white paper, Jacqui Smith
Finances and cuts, VC pay
Dundee, student health, international
Portugal special
Easter special
Regret, provider collapse, WP
Sussex fine, franchising
Scotland, Secret life of Students
Free speech, graduates, student finance
OfS chair, employment, skills
New leaders, Gen-AI, Visas
Wales cuts, mental health, regulation
REF people and culture, spending review, apprenticeships
Protection, visas, commuter students
Cuts, applications, campus climate
Funding, attendance, student hardship
Free speech, uni finances, regional inequality
Visegrad special
Special: Writing for Wonkhe
Students at work, transfers, spending review
OfS, international, Wales, Scotland
Skills, PTES, transformation
Financial sustainability, cold spots, student housing
Labour’s agenda, OfS, regional APPs
Fees increase, efficiency, Trump
Budget, student finance, consumer rights
Student numbers, budget, international, VC pay
Graduate jobs, sexual misconduct, NSS analysis
Mental health, renters’ reform, international strategy
Blueprint, fees increase, Brussels
Labour, skills, Medr
Fees and funding, ABA closure, workload
Free speech, international applications, social mobility
Jacqui Smith, franchising, digital divide
Skills, King’s speech, international foundation years
New Parliament, NSSmas, academic support
Maintenance, postgrad complaints, international
Cost of living, public polling, election
Manifestos, academic experience, flirting
Post-election, manifestos, Mickey Mouse
General election special
Graduate route, sector finances
Campus protest, student income, academic freedom
Franchising, Labour, misogyny, dropping out
First in family, NUS, hybrid grads
Funding, disabled students, nursing
Graduate route, pensions, graduate mobility
Loneliness, culture wars, HE on TV
Donelan, disconnect, budget
Cost of living, Australia, international
Culture wars, Covid compensation, student votes
Disability discrimination, applications, students at work
Fees and funding, access, public sector
International students, mental health, students and politics
Inspections, Jo Phoenix tribunal, governance
Fraud, market exit, applications, living wage
Baltics and Finland special
International, REF delay, stagnation
Minimum service levels, PTES, graduates and politics, apprenticeships
Immigration, Autumn Statement, PGRs
Reshuffle, inspections, money, data futures
King's speech, food, graduate skills
Free speech, franchising, NHS training
Housing, research culture, international
Student numbers, belonging, Israel/Gaza, social mobility
Labour and funding, antisemitism, mental health
Strikes, woke science, immigration, learner analytics
TEF results, staff development, PGR new deal
Loneliness, climate change, LLE, work
Regulation, quality, care experienced students
Cost of living, research security, gender based violence
Summer special: Admissions, NSS, Predictions
Harassment, NHS, AI, Bob Kerslake
Skills, research culture, industrial strategy
Student experience, MAB, LLE
FRAP, awarding gaps, international
Duty of care, franchising, interdisciplinary
In conversation with Jeremy Miles
Immigration, renters reform, regulation
Duty of care, international students, drugs
Twente Twente three
Starmer and fees, PGRs, fundraising, graduate outcomes
Finances, CBI, disabled students
Complaints, student voice, research funding
Access and participation, applications, mental health, Turnitin
Size and shape, generative AI, neurodiversity
Secret Life of Students special
Lifelong learning, Nurse review, international, housing
R&D, dependants, autocracies
Harassment, science and tech, student living
Sturgeon, engagement, graduate route
Prevent, reshuffle, graduate outcomes
Public perceptions, international, students and sex
Demand, student hardship, loans reform
Halfon, strikes, reviewing regulation
Drugs, year ahead, study tour
Canada v UK special
Student finance, student suicide, PGR supervision, Disabled students
Free speech Bill, Brown review, Chat-GPT
Immigration, China, PTES, graduate mobility
Cost of living, innovation, strikes
Woke QAA, Robert Halfon, Plan B, equality data
Regulatory burden, Dearing, governor diversity, harassment
Free speech, NUS, estranged students, NSS
Reshuffle, industrial action, applications decline
Immigration, belonging, blended learning
Harassment and sexual misconduct, R&D, debating societies
Conservative conference, outcomes and experience data, student suicide
Labour, access and participation, free speech, social class
Admissions, Energy Costs, Academic Freedom
Hidden History special
Truss, Cost of Living, Digital
Review of Summer 2022
Politics, UCAS, cost of living, cheating
Politics, NSS, grade inflation, access
Equality charters, free speech, staff and tech, Labour and fees
Graduate wellbeing, student housing, free speech
Public accounts committee, belonging, student financial support, free speech
Student experience, free speech, microcredentials
OfS investigations, uni leadership, skills
Wokery, LEO, grade inflation
REF results, Queen’s speech, Access all areas
Complaints, consultations, student suicide, in-person teaching
Blair, spiking, minimum entry, free speech
Covid harms, Michelle Donelan, Scandinavia
Grad jobs, staffing, China, student finance
Spring statement, UKRI strategy, social mobility
Quality, demand, blended, disabled students
Ukraine, Augar, Digifest, Admissions
Sexual misconduct, quality, belonging, drugs
Augar response special
The Secret Life of Students 2022
Access and participation, blended, careers, student finance
Levelling up, black students in halls, disabled students
Student numbers, assessment, third years, blended
Outcomes, TEF, NDAs
Omicron, access, harassment, NSS
Plan B, admissions, staffing, “one nation”
Strikes, blended, transfers
Access and participation, social mobility, student loans
Regulation, industrial action, PGTs
OfS, COP, student experience, antisemitism
White paper, Wales, PRES, ONS
Spiking, R&D, COP26, specialist providers
Skills, social mobility, black grads, free speech
Conservative conference, spelling, essay mills, diversity training
Spending review, party conferences, graduate outcomes, posters
Industrial action, humanities, LGBT+ students, free speech bill
Reshuffle, groupings, graduates
Gavin Williamson, UCAS data, student futures, international
Summer special - building back student experience
Reopening, skills, UCAS figures, NDAs
Finances, digital skills, careers, BLM, September
Value for money, science, PG access, white working class
Skills bill, examnishambles, roadmap delay
The best of Wonkfest
Loans, geography and employment, drama, September
Augar, credit, student futures, apprenticeships
“Dead end” courses, skills bill, September
Free speech, Queen’s speech, admissions, transitions
Racism, sex, drugs and controversial ideas
Return to campus, inclusive assessment, sex work, London
The New Power University
Student choice, Student Futures, happiness
Science, admissions, protest, tertiary
China, graduate employment, wellbeing, attainment gaps
Budget, complaints, pensions, history
Return to campus again, digital learning, wider experience, examnishambles
Free speech, applications, the media
Regulation, complaints, essay mills, WP
UCAS end of cycle, learning experience, student hardship, free speech
Grade inflation, skills, student housing, care leavers
Augar response, TEF review, Skills for Jobs, funding
PODCAST: Gavin Williamson, fair assessment, skills
PODCAST: Start of term special
Brexit, OfS reset, UCAS figures, free speech.
Transfers, ONS, climate change, brexit
Return to campus, graduate skills, pandemic student experience
Spending review, racial harassment, digital, Covid complaints
Mickey mouse, international, student protection, Cummings going
Admissions reform, Demo 2010, Christmas
Retention, lockdown two, skills and levelling up
Half term retention special
Future, REF, boomerangs, student support
Christmas lockdown, culture wars, student outcomes
Disabled students, new providers, diverse governors, Conservative conference
Return to campus, Augar, Black History Month
NSS, campus return, UCAS, student politics
The Secret Life of Students special
Return to campus, examnishambles, ministers
Clearing and admissions special
Expectations, Donelan, restructuring
Recovery, international, applications, 50% target
Bailout 2, social mobility, expectations
Graduate Outcomes, fees in Australia, PhD students
Reassurance, international, admissions, Rhodes will fall
Consumers, student experience, China, statues
Reopening, racism, number controls, cost cutting
Deferrals, clearing, research, access
Reopening, mental health, immigration, mergers
Science, postgrads, training, student housing
Bailout, social distance, governance, optimism
The Covid-19 support package for universities and students
Key workers, complaints, international demand, mental health
No Buildings from September?
Bailouts, admissions, September
Uni budgets, quality, admissions
Number controls, safety nets, community contribution
Covid-19 and admissions, REF, regulation and accommodation
PODCAST: Mental health, universities and Covid-19
PODCAST: Budget, COVID-19, OfS in court, misconduct
Graduate premium, careers, levelling up, culture wars
Admissions, coronavirus, number controls, levelling up
Trinity Hall Cambridge, civic, fair admissions, NSS
Value indicators, wellbeing, NDAs, student engagement
Student marketing and recruitment special
Access and participation, recruitment, research bureaucracy
Augar delay, access, casualisation, grammar schools
Unconditionals, KEF, research culture, racism
PODCAST: Harassment regulation, languages, Baltics
The Hidden History of HE Box Set: Season 2 Part 2
The Hidden History of HE Box Set: Season 2 Part 1
PODCAST: The morning after the general election 2019
Free speech, UCAS data, HE SMEs, student data
Applications, nurses, 21st century uni, voter registration
Bolton fire, Oxford Union, election
Labour, residential HE, PTES, free speech
Live from Wonkfest 2019
OfS reviews applications to get on its register
Racism, grad premium, criminals, VFM
Science, TNE, disabled students, demand
Student housing, research funding, sexual misconduct, Augar
Private schools, RORI, care leavers, VC pay
TUNDRA, fees, initiations, midwives
Mental health, BME gap, freshers
UUK Conference, International Students, Discover Uni
Higher technical, Warwick, clearing
NSS, DMU, new SU officers
Private schools, LEO, REF, free speech
S3 Ep8: VC pay, mental health, TEF4, graduation
S3 Ep7: Student experience, safeguarding, mobility, Tories
S3 Ep5: Augar special
The education policy trap: will the Augar review avoid the mistakes of the past?
S3 Ep4: Staff well being, degree classification, student health
S3 Ep3: Research, anti-semitism, social mobility, car parking
S3 Ep2: NDAs, ministers and offers, wellbeing
EU students, over-education, BME attainment, Cambridge and slavery
The Hidden History of HE
Non disclosures, access, pro-life, a levels
Kirsty Williams
Tories, NUS, stalking, rent guarantors
Financial forecasts, cybersecurity, apps
Grade inflation, loneliness, mergers, Peterson
International, cheating, skills, demography
Data, housing, funding and cheating
Uni bailouts, subsidies and teaching excellence
Strike complaints, access, harassment
Labour, decolonisation, housing
VC pay, civic, staff on TEF
Michael Barber live at Wonkfest18
Sam Gyimah in conversation - live at Wonkfest18