All our papers

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Silence of the Loans: How Loan Book Fictions Prevent Higher Education Reform
Professor John Blake
7 July 2026
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A Ministry for Manchesterism: rewiring Whitehall for locally-driven prosperity and change
29 June 2026
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The Big Shortfall: Demographic downturn and the post-18 education system
David Kernohan
7 June 2026
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Blood, debt, toil, and arrears: why thirty years of policy struggle has left us without the higher education system we deserve
Professor John Blake
16 April 2026
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A review of higher education funding is inevitable
Professor John Blake
4 February 2026
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Earning the license: How to reform university governance in the UK
6 November 2025
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Marking the course: Realising the ambitions of the post-16 white paper
26 October 2025
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Doing better, getting better: Getting a grip on the full-time student experience
7 July 2025
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The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience
25 June 2025
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Tooling up: building a new economic mission for higher education
Dr Debbie McVitty , James Coe , Jonathan Simons
9 June 2025