David Kernohan

Do you have polling on that?

Sunday at the garden party for Curtis Yarvin and the new, new right What you learn at a gathering of neoreactionaries, Very Online rightwingers and the formerly cancelled

Beautifully done. www.ft.com/content/0e24...

OfS Outcomes (B3) data, 2025 The Office for Students has updated its outcomes (B3) dashboards with another year of data. DK is here to help you make sense of it

B3 data! fresh B3 data, just published this morning! Get your university student outcomes regulatory tools here!

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New Scientist article: key takeaway - 8am or 4pm orals have a pass rate of about 50%; at noon it’s about 75%

Really interesting report by @stokel.bsky.social in @newscientist.com

The time of day a student takes an oral exam correlates with different pass rates

This is not a good thing

One for #ltheChat

Different enough to be annoying - but the issue is that it would bake in prestige rather than allow the opportunity to reward actual improvement.

Excellence Maps v2 The web application visualizes the impact of papers published in several subject areas on researchers and other status groups.

(on citations and prestige: have a look at this superb work www.excellencemapping.net/#/ )

We should allocate funding to places that produce research that makes a difference to people's lives and is produced in an environment that supports researchers to do interesting work rather than pit them against each other like Pokemon. That's my controversial opinion for today.

Honestly, the best thing we could do with REF is remove the assessment of outputs entirely. Just look at research impact and research culture - if people want a vanity metric to make up for how unloved they feel they could invent their own without spending all that public money.

I wrote a long thing about citation metrics years ago (on my old blog) that I just rediscovered and still like. followersoftheapocalyp.se/all-the-word...

Charmed to see people pushing the "do REF with citation metrics" approach again, like it is the late 00s. Stupid idea then, stupid idea now. Citations are a measure of how prestigious your university is, not how good your research is.

OfS Outcomes (B3) data, 2025 The Office for Students has updated its outcomes (B3) dashboards with another year of data. DK is here to help you make sense of it

B3 data! fresh B3 data, just published this morning! Get your university student outcomes regulatory tools here!

wonkhe.com/blogs/ofs-ou...

NEW on Wonkhe: SQA results day, 2025 bit.ly/3J60805

SQA results day, 2025 Results and higher education entry for 2025 in Scotland

Happy SQA results day and first day of clearing, everyone!

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Peer review is broken, and pedagogical research has a fix The lessons of decades of research into assessment and feedback haven’t tracked across into the practice of peer review. Madeleine Pownall wonders why not The lessons of decades of research into asses...

I can never understand why efforts to improve peer review don’t learn from the decades of educational research about how to do good, robust, constructive assessment and feedback.

What would happen if we treated peer review as pedagogy?

New in @wonkhe.bsky.social

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Jesus Christ on a bike www.officeforstudents.org.uk/for-students...

NEW on Wonkhe: David Kernohan addresses the low likelihood that someone with special needs support gets to university, in an analysis of the government's annual widening participation data release buff.ly/4rAlOs4

Just 329 students with an EHCP got to a high tariff provider last year David Kernohan addresses the low likelihood that someone with special needs support gets to university, in an analysis of the government's annual widening participation data release

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This makes me cross.

I'm basically an HE-specific More or Less at this point.

Do 600,000 graduates claim Universal Credit and would it matter if they did? Welcome to silly season.

Do 600,000 graduates claim Universal Credit and would it matter if they did?

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OfS funding allocations, 2025-26 Terribly sorry, but there is no money left.

OfS funding allocations are out: wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

NEW on Wonkhe: If UK higher education was a nation state, what would it be like? Impressive, argues David Kernohan, and maybe worth treating differently buff.ly/aonPxRy

NEW on Wonkhe: OfS finally starts regulating to address issues with subcontractual provision. David Kernohan wonders whether it is too little and too late. buff.ly/MIQ06B4

I'm not sure that this is a conversation we are emotionally ready to have as a nation, but £3.99 should not be the price of a regular sized bag of Haribo.

“AI has wrecked the usual application processes of most large graduate employers in PR, media, & journalism. The proportion of recent undergraduates in paid employment in the sector has fallen from nearly 8% in 2020-21 to just 4.86% over the last two years. Again, this should be of national concern”

Office for Students board papers, 13 February 2025 But where is the magic? The sense of wonder? I bet you've not even put up your board paper decorations.

It's not what it used to be.

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Graduate Outcomes, 2022-23 graduating year David Kernohan gets into the curiosities and caveats of this year's release of graduate outcomes data

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Graduate Outcomes, 2022-23 graduating year David Kernohan gets into the curiosities and caveats of this year's release of graduate outcomes data

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NEW on Wonkhe: More UK 18 year olds are applying to higher education than ever before. David Kernohan breaks the numbers down buff.ly/0o9YCck

Office for Students board papers, 13 February 2025 But where is the magic? The sense of wonder? I bet you've not even put up your board paper decorations.

It's not what it used to be.

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Student protection through market exit is not a compliance exercise The sector needs to be better prepared for the likely impact of provider closures on students. The OIA's Charlotte Corrish introduces a new report developed in partnership with SUMS consulting

It's increasingly clear that terms like "market exit" and "student closure" exist largely to remove from consideration the devastating effect the collapse of a university would have on the thousands of people employed there, as well as the wider local economy. wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...