Despite the growth in importance of China, the number of Chinese Studies students in the UK has not increased in the past 25 years and there has been no official review into the state of Chinese Studies in universities since 1999. Based on interviews with over 40 individuals from education,…
The Higher Education Policy Institute is publishing a new report, Understanding China: The Study of China in UK schools and universities by Michael Natzler (HEPI Report 148), sponsored by the University of St Andrews. The report reviews the current state of teaching and research on China in UK schools and universities. It…
This blog was written by Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester and one of the commissioners of the TALENT Commission. In May, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) results will be published. The REF assesses and benchmarks the quality of the UK’s higher education research impact and outputs. …
This blog was written by Stacey Mottershaw, Lecturer and Faculty Director of Taught Student Social Mobility at Leeds University Business School and Gareth Bramley, Senior Tutor at the University of Law. Stacey and Gareth are currently in the second year of the EdD programme at the University of Sheffield. The…
This blog was written by Professor Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. Today, Universities UK (UUK) publishes the list of universities that have signed its new Code of Practice on fair admissions. As my University’s name is on the list, I want to congratulate UUK (and GuildHE) for taking…
The fourth in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Professor Catherine O’Connor, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and Experience, Leeds Trinity University. There has been an ever-sharper focus from Government that a degree should mean a transition to highly-skilled employment. This was reinforced in late November 2021 with the announcement that…
The blog below, written by Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University (LSBU), includes the results of the 2022 Social Mobility Index. We should do more to celebrate those universities which make a contribution to real social mobility – that means getting on, not just getting in. This…
Michael Natzler, formerly HEPI’s Policy Officer, is now a consultant at Nous Group and writes in a personal capacity. You can find him on Twitter @Michael_Natzler. Last week on the blog, Michael argued that with potentially more than half a million displaced people coming to the UK in the next five years, higher…
This blog was written by Alan Roff, the author of a 2021 HEPI Debate Paper on student finance. Alan was Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire from 1996 to 2011 and is currently a member of the Council of the University of Salford. Alan is happy to…
This blog was contributed by Dr Susan Smith, Associate Dean (Education and Students) at the University of Sussex Business School. Taught postgraduate programmes are increasingly popular in the UK with 628,000 enrolments in 2020/21 and they now comprise 27 per cent of annual enrolments to higher education. The largest contributor to this…