This blog has been written by Dr Maggie Leggett, the Director of External Relations at Queen Mary University of London Any suggestion that Russell Group universities pay only lip service to widening access is just wrong. At Queen Mary, 92 per cent of our home undergraduate students are from state…
This piece has been written by Mary Curnock Cook, a HEPI Trustee and Chair of the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook. Much of the reporting and headlines around university admissions throughout the year, and particularly around A level results day, read as if they…
Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. Another A levels results day has come and gone. Even before the results were in, it became clear that one of the abiding stories would be of international students edging out their domestic counterparts for places. Some even offered policy…
On Tuesday 1 November, HEPI, with support from Lloyds Bank, is hosting a roundtable dinner in Oxford on how higher education should lead on tackling the climate emergency. Please note this is an invitation-only event.
On Tuesday 20 September 2022, HEPI, with support from the University of Sunderland, will be hosting a roundtable dinner on modernising medical schools. Please note this is an invitation-only event.
Congratulations to all those getting their results today – I used to spend every results day at the UCAS headquarters in Cheltenham with the Minister for Universities, where there was always a media scramble. When asked how the Government should respond to the kerfuffle, my advice was always: start by congratulating…
The think tank Bright Blue has today published the latest edition of its magazine, CentreWrite. It includes an article by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, on being a Whitehall special adviser to the Minister for Universities and Science in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills between May 2010 and December…
Josh Freeman is a graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the London School of Economics and has recently completed the Teach First programme teaching Politics. He is currently undertaking an internship at HEPI. There are three weeks to go in a Conservative leadership contest that has offered up bold…
Rob Cuthbert is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of the West of England and Managing Partner of the Practical Academics consultancy. He is the author of the 2020 HEPI blog, ‘A-Levels 2020: What students and parents need to know’. You can find Rob on Twitter @RobCuthbert. We expect…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jonathan Woodhead, Policy Adviser at Birkbeck, University of London. He writes here in his capacity as a member of the London Higher Policy Network – a group bringing together policy leads from over 40 London universities and higher education institutions. You can…