The Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) at Goldsmiths, University of London, recently put up a post entitled ‘Debt Briefing 01: Student Debt in the United Kingdom‘. This was part of an ESRC-funded project on ‘Crafting an Alternative Politics of Debt’. The piece is a useful summary of some of the debates around…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jon Wakeford, who is Group Director, Strategy and Communications at UPP, a member of the CBI London Council and a member of the Higher Education Commission. The distinction between the academic and vocational route in British education is commonly understood, especially by pupils and their…
On Thursday, 10th December 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) publishes Employability: Degrees of Value, a paper calling for higher education to improve graduate employability. The report is published as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers. The paper highlights a misplaced focus on employment rather than employability and proposes…
Enhancing the employability of graduates is a key aim of the new green paper on higher education. Yet it contains no proposals aimed directly at achieving it. This pamphlet starts by explaining why employability is not the same as employment. Employability is about securing a rewarding and fulfilling career, not…
The last six months in higher education have been dominated by discussion about teaching quality and the proposed Teaching Excellence Framework. With the Green Paper now in the public domain, this event presents an opportunity to reflect on those discussions. What recommendations would you make to the Minister? What should…
In a recent speech to a Universities UK conference, I pooh-poohed various conspiracy theories doing the rounds on the recent higher education green paper, such as the idea that the Government wants to put the right to raise the undergraduate tuition fee cap in the hands of a Secretary of State…
On the evening of Monday 7th December 2015, HEPI held a roundtable dinner at the Royal Society in partnership with BPP University. The focus of the discussion was the graduate labour market with guest speakers Peter Cheese, Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Ben…
On the evening of Wednesday, 2nd December 2015, HEPI held a roundtable dinner with Les Ebdon, Director of Fair Access, who spoke about the proposals in the recent higher education green paper and responded to the general discussion that followed. The evening was chaired by Professor Sir Ivor Crewe, HEPI’s Chair of…
On Monday, 1st December 2015, Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, delivered HEPI’s Annual Lecture at One Great George Street in central London. The evening, including the reception afterwards, was kindly sponsored by Pearson and Wiley. HEPI published the text of the lecture in January 2016 and the slides from the presentation…
On Tuesday, 1st December 2015, HEPI co-hosted a lunch with King’s College London at which Andreas Schleicher, Director of Education at the OECD, presented highlights from the OECD’s new Education at a Glance 2015 publication, with a particular focus on how the UK performs against other states. Baroness Wolf (KCL),…