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PQA: Just what does it mean?

14 August 2019 by Nick Hillman

The annual conversation about whether or not people should be offered places in higher education only after receiving their exam results, known as PQA, is…

What will Brexit mean for student demand?

The Higher Education Policy Institute is today publishing a new report looking at the impact of Brexit on student demand. Two sides of the same…

Unconditional offers: Taking your foot off the gas in the last few months of school is the sort of decision you take as a child and regret as an adult

30 July 2019 by Nick Hillman

Responding to the new data on unconditional offers published by UCAS, Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: Our universities are among…

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Leading international universities through Brexit

This blog has been contributed by Professor Martin Paul, President of Maastricht University Last year I was in London waiting for a friend when a young man approached me. To…

A Level Analysis 2019: Blood Pressure Alert for English and Mathematics

This blog has been kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook, HE expert and senior adviser with Cairneagle Associates, and Christoffer Fogtdal, Strategy Consultant at Cairneagle Associates…

It’s the autonomy, stupid: Augar, admissions and market signalling

This blog has been contributed by Professor Colin McCaig, Sheffield Hallam University. With the publication of, and ongoing fall-out from, the Augar Review of Post-18…