This piece was kindly contributed by Dr Audrey Songhurst, former Head of Operations in Kent Innovation and Enterprise, University of Kent. Audrey was awarded a Doctorate in Education from Canterbury Christ Church University and her thesis was entitled ‘Employability through a philosophical lens – a conceptual analysis’. One of the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Richard O’Kelly, Head of Analytical Data, UCAS and Carys Fisher, Senior Policy Executive, UCAS. ‘Going away to university’ is engrained in our culture The UK’s student population is not constrained to studying at a local university, as is typically the case in the rest…
This blog was kindly contributed by Ben Mason, Founder and CEO of globalbridge. The overall impacts of Covid-19 are going to have an effect on almost every aspect of education. While the long-term is impossible to accurately predict, the immediate effects are being managed – albeit with very mixed results.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Margot James, Executive Chair of Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. She previously served as Minister of State for Digital and Creative Industries and as Minister for Small Business. I joined Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick as…
There is huge interest at the moment in whether higher education institutions will be more likely to merge with one another as a result of the financial pressures caused by the pandemic. The Universities UK list of asks to the Government included the important suggestion of ‘A transformation fund to support…
This blog was written by Lucian J. Hudson, Lead Author, Universities at the Crossroads, and past Director of Communications, University of Oxford and The Open University. In my report for Policy Exchange published in February before Coronavirus moved centre stage, I warned that the higher education sector was not yet…
This piece was kindly contributed by Charlotte Williams, a qualified organisational consultant, counsellor, trainer and clinical supervisor at Tavistock Consulting. Charlotte has over 17 years of experience in higher education and was previously head of a London University Counselling Service and has a particular interest in staff and organisational wellbeing.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Louise Nicol, Founder of the Asia Careers Group. The 2000s have seen pandemics such as SARS, global economic disruption with the financial crisis of 2008 and substantial government policy including the removal of the post-study work (PSW) visa in 2012. All three disrupted the…
Coronavirus has impacted our lives in a multitude of ways, including bringing fears for students about the labour market they are going to enter. In a recent HEPI Policy Note, published in partnership with JobTeaser, we asked students whether the pandemic had changed their feelings about entering the workforce. For the majority…
In this blog, Bethan Cornell, a Physics PhD Student at King’s College London who is undertaking an internship at HEPI, explores some of the best practice by universities in continuing to deliver the wider student experience under lockdown. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, institutions have rapidly moved away…