This blog was kindly contributed by Nigel Copsey, who is Professor of Modern History at Teesside University and the author of Anti-Fascism in Britain (2nd edition, 2016) and co-editor of the Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right series. For all his lofty ideals about the need to protect…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Lucy Findlay MBE, Managing Director of Social Enterprise Company CIC and Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive of London Higher. You can find Lucy and Diana on Twitter @LucyFindlay and @dianajbeech. In its 2019 manifesto, the Government pledged to strengthen universities’ and colleges’ civic…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Dave Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor, London South Bank University. You can find Dave on Twitter @David_PhoenixVC. The ‘policy avalanche’ on 21 January, for which the tertiary education sector in England was bracing itself, has now been written off by many (particularly within higher education) as a…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Paul Layzell, Principal of Royal Holloway, University of London and James Bennett, Director of StoryFutures Academy. You can find Paul on Twitter @RHULPrincipal and James @james_a_bennett. The UK has a skills challenge. On this, business leaders, politicians, educators and commentators can all agree.…
Today’s blog is an extract from this year’s Annual Lecture of the National Conference of University Professors (NCUP), which has just been delivered by Sir Anthony Seldon (the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham). You can find Anthony on Twitter @AnthonySeldon. ***Tomorrow, HEPI and Advance HE are hosting a…
Free speech and academic freedom in higher education institutions came back with a vengeance this week, as the Government announced their long-awaited proposals. It is one area where the main players have a tendency to imply their positions are more black-and-white than they really are. For example: the Government may…
Keith Geary is a former headteacher of two comprehensive schools and is currently a school governor and examiner. Ofqual’s 2020 proposals for exam grades without exams stretched to 68 pages and generated a summer of results chaos and uncertainty for students and higher education admissions. 2021’s proposals run to 46…
In a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, the former Education Editor of The Times, Rosemary Bennett, reveals there were over 7,000 stories about universities in the leading national daily and Sunday newspapers in 2020 and explains why higher education is receiving so much more media coverage than in…
In this HEPI debate paper on the media and higher education, Rosemary Bennett provides a commentary on the interaction of the two sectors and proposes ideas on how universities might best engage with journalists to promote themselves and their research.
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Katie Bell, Chief Marketing Officer, UCAS. You can find Katie on Twitter @DrKatieBell. For many parents, an apprenticeship musters up images of overalls and oily hands, but in the modern day that could not be further from the truth. From nursing and policing…