This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Arif Ahmed, who is a reader at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he authored the amendments to the new Statement on Freedom of Speech. The Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, proposes to protect free speech at…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Professor Amanda Broderick, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of East London, Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive of London Higher, and Vivienne Stern, Director of Universities UK International. Every university in the country recognises the duty of care it has to the health…
This blog was kindly contributed by Diana Laurillard, Professor of Learning with Digital Technology at the UCL Institute of Education. You can find Diana on Twitter @thinksitthrough. Teaching in every education sector has changed beyond all recognition over the past year and the dramatic conversion from primarily face-to-face teaching to…
Wendy Alexander is the Vice-Principal (International) at the University of Dundee and was previously the Associate Dean of Global Business at the London Business School. She is also a former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. You can find Wendy on Twitter @wendy_alexander. It is an irony of our times…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jo Grady, the General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), who responds to this week’s series of three HEPI blogs on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Jo is on Twitter @DrJoGrady. Pension schemes and the science of their valuation can…
This is the third in a series of three blogs that HEPI is running this week on the state of university pensions and particularly the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). The previous two blogs are available here and here. However tough the predicament faced by any pension scheme, as the title…
This is the second in a series of three blogs that HEPI is running yesterday, today and tomorrow on the state of university pensions and particularly the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Salary costs already make up 59% of the higher education sector’s operating expenditure. If USS contributions were to rise…
This is the first in a series of three blogs that HEPI is running today, tomorrow and the next day on the state of university pensions and particularly the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). In one of their recent excellent morning emails, the HE team at Research Professional declared: ‘The hole…
***UPDATE*** A recording of the webinar is now available below: HEPI and Advance HE are delighted to announce a series of webinars being held in place of the usual HEPI / Advance HE Parliamentary Breakfast Seminar series. The third webinar in the series focuses on equality. In recent years progress…
***UPDATE*** A recording of the webinar can now be viewed below: HEPI and Advance HE are delighted to announce a series of webinars being held in place of the usual HEPI / Advance HE Parliamentary Breakfast Seminar series. In the second webinar of the series, HEPI and Advance HE consider…