Michael Salmon
@michaelsalmon0.bsky.social
News Editor at Wonkhe
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There are some great new providers, but somehow the risk-based framework has allowed systemic failures in quality assurance in some OfS registered providers.
These case studies are just awful.
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These case studies are just awful.
www.oiahe.org.uk/resources-an...
Student protection - PI112501
This case summary about Brit College illustrates the impact on individual students where there is a gap in student protection.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
There are some great new providers, but somehow the risk-based framework has allowed systemic failures in quality assurance in some OfS registered providers.
These case studies are just awful.
www.oiahe.org.uk/resources-an...
These case studies are just awful.
www.oiahe.org.uk/resources-an...
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It’s ten whole years since Government committed to remove barriers to new entrants as providers and to have a risk-based framework.
There are students paying back loans for courses they were unable to complete because their colleges were (at best) negligent.
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There are students paying back loans for courses they were unable to complete because their colleges were (at best) negligent.
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Student protection is needed in all higher-level learning
For Charlotte Corrish, the government’s new ambitions for higher-level participation must be accompanied by all students having access to the same safeguards For Charlotte Corrish, the government’s ne...
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November 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It’s ten whole years since Government committed to remove barriers to new entrants as providers and to have a risk-based framework.
There are students paying back loans for courses they were unable to complete because their colleges were (at best) negligent.
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
There are students paying back loans for courses they were unable to complete because their colleges were (at best) negligent.
wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...
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Great piece - understands policy context and asks the right questions about what that means for the university and the city.
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 8:25 AM
Great piece - understands policy context and asks the right questions about what that means for the university and the city.
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NEW on Wonkhe: “Apprenticeship units” and the LLE wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
October 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: “Apprenticeship units” and the LLE wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...
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My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection
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Plaid smash Reform to win in Caerphilly
These are the key takeaways from a massive night in Welsh politics
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October 24, 2025 at 4:29 AM
My latest newsletter with all the analysis from a historic Caerphilly byelection
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NEW on Wonkhe: Despite previous indications that movement was afoot, the post-16 education and skills white paper had nothing to say about institutional closure. Michael Salmon tries to work out what’s changed buff.ly/E8tkJve
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Despite previous indications that movement was afoot, the post-16 education and skills white paper had nothing to say about institutional closure. Michael Salmon tries to work out what’s changed buff.ly/E8tkJve
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Everything that is in the White Paper for HE, handily digested.
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Or, if you prefer in person: www.thefestivalofhe.com
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Or, if you prefer in person: www.thefestivalofhe.com
NEW on Wonkhe: Higher education reform is here – along with a comprehensive strategy for post-16 education and skills. Debbie McVitty and David Kernohan work through the details of the government's agenda for HE buff.ly/D73ayy4
October 21, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Everything that is in the White Paper for HE, handily digested.
Or if you prefer audio: wonkhe.com/blogs/podcas...
Or, if you prefer in person: www.thefestivalofhe.com
Or if you prefer audio: wonkhe.com/blogs/podcas...
Or, if you prefer in person: www.thefestivalofhe.com
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
This shows the Pier Walk - a ceremony which is part of every new academic year at St Andrews
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This shows the Pier Walk - a ceremony which is part of every new academic year at St Andrews
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October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
This shows the Pier Walk - a ceremony which is part of every new academic year at St Andrews
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This shows the Pier Walk - a ceremony which is part of every new academic year at St Andrews
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NEW on Wonkhe: Higher education reform is here – along with a comprehensive strategy for post-16 education and skills. Debbie McVitty and David Kernohan work through the details of the government's agenda for HE wonkhe.com/blogs/what-i...
October 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW on Wonkhe: Higher education reform is here – along with a comprehensive strategy for post-16 education and skills. Debbie McVitty and David Kernohan work through the details of the government's agenda for HE wonkhe.com/blogs/what-i...
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NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson examines the explosive growth of franchised business courses in England’s higher education sector – and asks why the Department for Education continues to fund providers with such poor student outcomes buff.ly/aaRX1Fq
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson examines the explosive growth of franchised business courses in England’s higher education sector – and asks why the Department for Education continues to fund providers with such poor student outcomes buff.ly/aaRX1Fq
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Now we can see the outcome data, it’s very clear that regulating some HE provision by outcome data hasn’t worked. A sub-set of franchised HE has become a get rich quick scheme and not for the students. DfE/OfS need their new rules in place ASAP.
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How higher education became a get rich quick scheme
Jim Dickinson examines the explosive growth of franchised business courses in England’s higher education sector – and asks why the Department for Education continues to fund providers with such poor s...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Now we can see the outcome data, it’s very clear that regulating some HE provision by outcome data hasn’t worked. A sub-set of franchised HE has become a get rich quick scheme and not for the students. DfE/OfS need their new rules in place ASAP.
wonkhe.com/blogs/how-hi...
wonkhe.com/blogs/how-hi...
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Yesterday, the OfS published an Insight briefing into the experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. It tells us all the same issues that every report about disabled students tells us, year after year. What we need is enforcement, not another checklist of 'thinking points' wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
Why is regulation on disabled students so weak?
As new insight from OfS reveals improving outcomes and worsening experience for disabled students, Jim Dickinson asks whether higher education regulation is fundamentally flawed in its design and focu...
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October 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Yesterday, the OfS published an Insight briefing into the experiences of disabled students in #UKHE. It tells us all the same issues that every report about disabled students tells us, year after year. What we need is enforcement, not another checklist of 'thinking points' wonkhe.com/blogs/why-is...
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
This is in Guildford; its ancestor, Battersea Polytechnic, was in London
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This is in Guildford; its ancestor, Battersea Polytechnic, was in London
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October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of @uniofsurrey.bsky.social
This is in Guildford; its ancestor, Battersea Polytechnic, was in London
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This is in Guildford; its ancestor, Battersea Polytechnic, was in London
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UK govt prepares for yet another massive shake-up in post-16 education, to be achieved, yet again, by inventing new hoops to jump through while making the sector pay for the building of the hoops out of its own pocket. Which is empty.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
UK govt prepares for yet another massive shake-up in post-16 education, to be achieved, yet again, by inventing new hoops to jump through while making the sector pay for the building of the hoops out of its own pocket. Which is empty.
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Last week on Wonkhe: The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities to get stuck into transnational education. Michael Salmon unpicks the policy context
A TNE policy primer for anyone seeking new funding streams
The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities to get stuck into transnational education. Michael Salmon unpicks the policy context The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities...
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October 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Last week on Wonkhe: The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities to get stuck into transnational education. Michael Salmon unpicks the policy context
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NEW on Wonkhe: FE-HE collaboration needs to be more than pointing both sectors at the same diminishing funding pot bit.ly/3W0lak8
October 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: FE-HE collaboration needs to be more than pointing both sectors at the same diminishing funding pot bit.ly/3W0lak8
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NEW on Wonkhe: The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities to get stuck into transnational education. Michael Salmon unpicks the policy context buff.ly/0hSkM7h
October 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
NEW on Wonkhe: The government sees “huge opportunity” for universities to get stuck into transnational education. Michael Salmon unpicks the policy context buff.ly/0hSkM7h
That's quite the typo!
October 9, 2025 at 10:17 AM
That's quite the typo!
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of University College, Stockton, founded in 1992 as a joint venture between @durham.ac.uk and @teessideuni.bsky.social
Teesside withdrew in 1998, it is now the Queen's Campus Durham
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Teesside withdrew in 1998, it is now the Queen's Campus Durham
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October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of University College, Stockton, founded in 1992 as a joint venture between @durham.ac.uk and @teessideuni.bsky.social
Teesside withdrew in 1998, it is now the Queen's Campus Durham
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Teesside withdrew in 1998, it is now the Queen's Campus Durham
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Divide and rule - a really effective way to split the opposition to the levy
September 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Divide and rule - a really effective way to split the opposition to the levy
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"The new maintenance grants will be fully funded by a new International Student Levy, ensuring that revenue from international students is used to benefit working-class domestic students, and support growth and opportunity" ye gods
September 29, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"The new maintenance grants will be fully funded by a new International Student Levy, ensuring that revenue from international students is used to benefit working-class domestic students, and support growth and opportunity" ye gods
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My #HigherEducationPostcard blog for @wonkhe.bsky.social this week goes to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social
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Higher education postcard: Jesus College, Cambridge
This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us from medieval Thuringia to Cambridge This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag takes us from medieval Thuringia to Cambridge
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September 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
My #HigherEducationPostcard blog for @wonkhe.bsky.social this week goes to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social
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Higher education’s social licence
Why does everyone in Australian HE go on about social licence – and is the UK next?
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September 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UMIST, which was hied off from the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk and then rejoined it
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September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of the former University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UMIST, which was hied off from the University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk and then rejoined it
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of University College Buckland, which operated briefly in the 1960s and 1970s, offering courses leading to University of London degrees
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September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of University College Buckland, which operated briefly in the 1960s and 1970s, offering courses leading to University of London degrees
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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