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Month: June 2019

  • Play Review – Admissions

    8 June 2019 by Shakira Martin

    This play review was kindly contributed by Shakira Martin, NUS President.  I went recently to see the play Admissions, by Joshua Harmon at the Trafalgar Studio in London. Colleagues in the sector had told me how relevant and thought provoking it was, especially in the current times where access and…

  • Don’t write off foundation years

    7 June 2019 by Tom Sperlinger

    This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Tom Sperlinger, who is Professor of Literature and Engaged Pedagogy at the University of Bristol and co-author of Who are universities for? I have never cheered out loud when reading a review of higher education funding before. But I did…

  • High quality provision is key to filling the ‘missing middle’

    5 June 2019 by Scott Kelly

    It would be a great pity if the bulk of the Augar review were to be rejected as a result of criticism of its headline recommendations on student fees, or completely lost in the general hubbub generated by the Conservative leadership race. While the concern expressed in the report about…

  • Implementing Augar

    3 June 2019

    Last week’s Augar report divided opinion. At HEPI, we were at the more positive end of the spectrum, not least because the report addressed, in a serious way, pretty much all the points we had said it should. We were, and remain, determined not to fall down the biggest rabbit hole…