***UPDATE: A recording of the webinar is below*** HEPI and UCAS are delighted to announce an ‘In Conversation’ webinar with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive at UCAS, about this year’s school and college leavers’ results and admissions to higher education. To register your place at the webinar on Monday 14 August…
The results of the annual Graduate Outcomes Survey are upon us again, and across the sector we scramble to analyse our performance in terms of highly skilled employment outcomes and how this might affect our internal performance measures and external league table standings. But it is worth looking beyond the…
This is the story of a once great academic publishing house whose reputation is now tarnished among academics, authors and even among the editors who are currently engaged to edit their vast and varied suite of journals. The academic publishing industry is a significant international employer, with the leading companies…
Nine years have passed since the Times Higher published a short piece on its Opinions page (‘Are “forgivable fees” the answer?’, THE, 9 October 2014). That piece was written at a time when the Labour Party, trying to shape its manifesto for the 2015 election, was wrestling its approach to student…
We spoke to Liam to discuss Jisc’s contribution to UCAS’ Journey to a Million, digital transformation and why partnerships are crucial to success. How might the predicted increase in student numbers impact institutions and their staff? Digital transformation is an essential part of the solution to the predicted increase in…