This is a guest blog from Bill Rammell, Vice-Chancellor, University of Bedfordshire and the new Chair-elect at MillionPlus. He is also the author of a HEPI report Protecting the Public Interest in Higher Education. It is always an interesting time in higher education. As a sector that impacts all of society,…
Regrettably, concerns about the mounting stress levels experienced by staff working in higher education is not new. The report, ‘Pressure point: a survey, into the causes and consequences of occupational stress in UK academic and related staff.’ by Gail Kinman (1998), identified work overload, long working hours as the results…
This is a guest blog from Professor Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford and Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education What are the implications of the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding (the Augar report) for equal access in UK higher education and…
Today’s new Student Academic Experience Survey 2019 from HEPI and Advance HE includes a new question on disclosing mental health challenges to students’ parents and guardians. Here is a summary of the issue. What do your results show? The HEPI / Advance HE 2019 Student Academic Survey Survey shows nearly all…
The 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey of over 14,000 full-time undergraduate students from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Advance HE shows rising value-for-money perceptions. The key findings in the 2019 Student Academic Experience Survey by Jonathan Neves, Head of Business Intelligence and Surveys at Advance HE, and Nick Hillman,…
The Student Academic Experience Survey has been recording the views of students since 2006. Between 4 February and 11 March 2019, 14,072 responses were collected from YouthSight’s Student Panel. Weighting has been applied to the responses to ensure the sample is balanced and reflective of the full-time student population as a…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Johnny Rich, CEO of the outreach organisation Push At the start of the Augar Review, the panel set out their eight guiding principles. Number four is: “The cost of post-18 education should be shared between taxpayers, employers and learners.” I agree, but, it seems,…
On Tuesday, 11 June 2019, HEPI and the UPP Foundation jointly hosted a roundtable lunch with guest speaker Robert J Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago, on ‘Advancing the Civic University: Cities and Universities’.
This is a guest blog kindly posted by Nick Isles, author and consultant. It took its time but finally the Augar Review has landed. And for the Further Education (FE) sector there is much to celebrate. The review is clear. Enough is enough. No more Cinderella sector. If the UK…
HEPI and Lloyds Bank recently brought together a range of vice-chancellors, board chairs, finance directors and other sector leaders to discuss the financial challenges facing universities. The backdrop was the recent publication of the Augar review and the enormous current political uncertainty. One theme that shone through was the need…