Jim Dickinson
@jimdickinson.bsky.social
Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
NEW on Wonkhe: New Skills England guidance provides the detail for the white paper’s vision of a coherent skills system. Michael Salmon assesses whether it could work buff.ly/Dtpbg0t
November 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: New Skills England guidance provides the detail for the white paper’s vision of a coherent skills system. Michael Salmon assesses whether it could work buff.ly/Dtpbg0t
NEW on Wonkhe: A decade after a brutal attack reshaped US campus law, Bob Abrahart examines what the debate over duties still gets wrong about universities’ legal responsibilities buff.ly/YcVyHkS
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: A decade after a brutal attack reshaped US campus law, Bob Abrahart examines what the debate over duties still gets wrong about universities’ legal responsibilities buff.ly/YcVyHkS
NEW on Wonkhe: OfS capital allocations, 2025-26 bit.ly/4o49hoW
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: OfS capital allocations, 2025-26 bit.ly/4o49hoW
NEW on Wonkhe: The policy environment is supportive, but financial pressures are constraining universities’ civic work. Adam Leach examines the risks and the opportunities ahead wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: The policy environment is supportive, but financial pressures are constraining universities’ civic work. Adam Leach examines the risks and the opportunities ahead wonkhe.com/blogs/higher...
Yeah, but agents are selling students homes for next year NOW lads
November 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yeah, but agents are selling students homes for next year NOW lads
NEW on Wonkhe: Rhiannon McQuone introduces research from Public First indicating that international fees are HE’s last line of defence wonkhe.com/blogs/the-su...
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Rhiannon McQuone introduces research from Public First indicating that international fees are HE’s last line of defence wonkhe.com/blogs/the-su...
NEW on Wonkhe: Graduates and non-graduates are polarised in their views of university study. Steve O’Neil thinks through how the sector can demonstrate its value across the electorate buff.ly/eAa6x1Y
November 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Graduates and non-graduates are polarised in their views of university study. Steve O’Neil thinks through how the sector can demonstrate its value across the electorate buff.ly/eAa6x1Y
NEW on Wonkhe: Despite sector-wide consensus on how to tackle belonging gaps, Jim Dickinson explores how the latest APPs risk entrenching disadvantage by misreading the social psychology behind inclusion buff.ly/PDsei4E
November 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Despite sector-wide consensus on how to tackle belonging gaps, Jim Dickinson explores how the latest APPs risk entrenching disadvantage by misreading the social psychology behind inclusion buff.ly/PDsei4E
NEW on Wonkhe: Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural one buff.ly/pFlsxrw
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural one buff.ly/pFlsxrw
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias buff.ly/NvhAOH0
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us to a college with an aeronautical bias buff.ly/NvhAOH0
NEW on Wonkhe: It's taken eleven months, but the draft OfS strategy is now finalised. David Kernohan takes a look at what has changed buff.ly/K1ccOB7
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: It's taken eleven months, but the draft OfS strategy is now finalised. David Kernohan takes a look at what has changed buff.ly/K1ccOB7
NEW on Wonkhe: For Charlotte Corrish, the government’s new ambitions for higher-level participation must be accompanied by all students having access to the same safeguards buff.ly/vNfNxI1
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: For Charlotte Corrish, the government’s new ambitions for higher-level participation must be accompanied by all students having access to the same safeguards buff.ly/vNfNxI1
NEW on Wonkhe: If we wanted to do skills planning, could we? bit.ly/4qRIpLv
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: If we wanted to do skills planning, could we? bit.ly/4qRIpLv
NEW on Wonkhe: What if the real problem with higher education choice isn’t too little data, but too much of the wrong kind? Jim Dickinson argues it’s time to rethink programme architecture, not metadata buff.ly/sqy7zu5
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: What if the real problem with higher education choice isn’t too little data, but too much of the wrong kind? Jim Dickinson argues it’s time to rethink programme architecture, not metadata buff.ly/sqy7zu5
NEW on Wonkhe: After twenty-five years of progress creative practice research no longer needs to justify itself, writes Roy Hanney – but it still lacks the infrastructure to thrive. buff.ly/L10Fmfp
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: After twenty-five years of progress creative practice research no longer needs to justify itself, writes Roy Hanney – but it still lacks the infrastructure to thrive. buff.ly/L10Fmfp
NEW on Wonkhe: Despite promises of informed choice and fair treatment, Jim Dickinson argues that England’s student-as-consumer model has failed to deliver – and urgently needs re-examination by regulators buff.ly/uaISyzl
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Despite promises of informed choice and fair treatment, Jim Dickinson argues that England’s student-as-consumer model has failed to deliver – and urgently needs re-examination by regulators buff.ly/uaISyzl
NEW on Wonkhe: Imagine if we gave everyone a first bit.ly/43m8qbI
November 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: Imagine if we gave everyone a first bit.ly/43m8qbI
NEW on Wonkhe: Universities are moving beyond digital connectivity toward digital maturity, Andrea Marcinkus and Joël McConnell try and find a way forward buff.ly/lYCHQQq
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Universities are moving beyond digital connectivity toward digital maturity, Andrea Marcinkus and Joël McConnell try and find a way forward buff.ly/lYCHQQq
NEW on Wonkhe: Plymouth is once again entering an era of defence-driven growth. Richard Davies asks how the university fits in buff.ly/dDLRkUZ
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Plymouth is once again entering an era of defence-driven growth. Richard Davies asks how the university fits in buff.ly/dDLRkUZ
NEW on Wonkhe: Little England’s splendid isolation in European HE looks increasingly absurd bit.ly/4i2SbpV
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: Little England’s splendid isolation in European HE looks increasingly absurd bit.ly/4i2SbpV
NEW on Wonkhe: Medical students are being failed by a system that won’t take responsibility bit.ly/3JEj5rw
November 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Medical students are being failed by a system that won’t take responsibility bit.ly/3JEj5rw
NEW on Wonkhe: Janice Kay and Rachel Maxwell set out all the elements of a whole-institution AI strategy and the leadership capabilities required to make it real buff.ly/GdZR5GR
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Janice Kay and Rachel Maxwell set out all the elements of a whole-institution AI strategy and the leadership capabilities required to make it real buff.ly/GdZR5GR
NEW on Wonkhe: There are legitimate use-cases for AI that deliver efficiency, but for Nick Jennings and Sam Grogan the real prize is active development of AI learning partnership skills buff.ly/UriccMh
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: There are legitimate use-cases for AI that deliver efficiency, but for Nick Jennings and Sam Grogan the real prize is active development of AI learning partnership skills buff.ly/UriccMh
NEW on Wonkhe: Resolving this campus culture war could save lives bit.ly/4hUp9ZB
November 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: Resolving this campus culture war could save lives bit.ly/4hUp9ZB
NEW on Wonkhe: Educator expertise is needed to work out how AI can uplift, not constrain, cognition bit.ly/49CG1BW
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: Educator expertise is needed to work out how AI can uplift, not constrain, cognition bit.ly/49CG1BW