Phew. Time to take a breather. 2020 has been a rollercoaster and this blog marks our last of the year. In January, perhaps we were tempting fate when we answered ‘How accurate were predictions for higher education in 2020?’ Little did we know that the Valentine’s Day reshuffle (bringing in…
This blog was kindly contributed by Kirstie-Anne Woodman, a recent International Relations graduate from the University of Birmingham. Kirstie-Anne is currently interning at a diversity and inclusion consultancy agency, Worth of Mouth Services. You can find Kirstie-Anne on LinkedIn. It took me a long time to find a dissertation topic…
***UPDATE*** A recording of the webinar is available here: More than ten years since the raising of tuition fees was announced in England, the topic of student funding remains hotly debated across the UK. For example, the Westminster Government is still due to respond to the Augar report and higher education…
his guest blog has been kindly written for us by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive of London Higher, Dr Richard Boffey, Deputy Head of AccessHE, and Dr Graeme Atherton, Head of AccessHE. AccessHE is part of the London Higher group representing universities and higher education colleges across the capital. You…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor David Law, Academic Director: Global Partnerships, Keele University. How valuable are higher education exports to China? James Pitman, the Managing Director of Study Group, asked in a blog published by HEPI in March 2017, ‘Why does the Office for National Statistics (ONS) fail…
This blog was kindly contributed by Aimee Kleinman and Tim Landucci, Education Marketing Consultants at SMRS. SMRS is a marketing agency that works with universities on strategic marketing and consultancy. Previously Aimee worked in strategic marketing roles at UCL, King’s College London and Middlesex universities. Tim previously worked in similar…
Lee Elliot Major is Professor of Social Mobility at the University of Exeter and former CEO of the Sutton Trust. Like all statistics, university admissions data are wonderfully manipulative things. Today’s UCAS figures might lead you to conclude that universities’ social mobility efforts require just a little nudge to vanquish inequality…
This blog was kindly contributed by Clare Marchant, Chief Executive, UCAS. The onset of the festive season each year signals the start of UCAS’ End of Cycle reporting as we aim to provide the sector with relevant and accessible analysis that looks back at the undergraduate recruitment year, while also…
This blog was kindly contributed by Jenny Ann Allen, Access and Participation Funding Manager, and Kirsty Johnson, Access and Participation Manager, at the Office for Students (OfS). A new Office for Students consultation proposes a more targeted approach to higher education collaborative outreach with a greater focus on further education…
This is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman to Amazon Web Services’s (AWS) Higher Education Transformation Week. Introduction Thank you for inviting me to speak at this important event. For those of you who don’t know, the Higher Education Policy Institute or HEPI is the UK’s only think tank that…