New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
Reports
Y Gorau Oll: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student
Gwenno Roberts and Jim Dickinson set out eight student ambitions for Welsh higher education and test for the newly-commissioned review of Welsh HE. Is Wales prepared to make its system “y gorau oll” – “the very best”?
5 August 2026
Recent reports
A Ministry for Manchesterism: rewiring Whitehall for locally-driven prosperity and change29 June 2026Blood, debt, toil, and arrears: why thirty years of policy struggle has left us without the higher education system we deserve16 April 2026Earning the license: How to reform university governance in the UK6 November 2025Marking the course: Realising the ambitions of the post-16 white paper26 October 2025Doing better, getting better: Getting a grip on the full-time student experience7 July 2025The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience25 June 2025
From the Director
Is another future for English higher education possible?
Is another future possible? Well, one is coming, whether you want it or not: the current system cannot survive. It is already dying as we speak. Which, I think, leaves three questions for everyone who works in it.
11 September 2026Professor John Blake