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  • WEEKEND READING: Degrees of mobility: access, participation, and the ‘levelling up’ agenda

    7 November 2020 by Graeme Atherton & Peter John

    This blog was written by Dr Graeme Atherton, Director, National Education Opportunities Network and Professor Peter John CBE, Vice-Chancellor, University of West London. Earlier this year, Graeme and Peter wrote a piece in response to Michelle Donelan’s comments about social mobility in higher education. It is hard to pin down…

  • How radical is the educational offer of the London Interdisciplinary School?

    6 November 2020 by Paul Ashwin

    This blog was kindly contributed by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education. Paul is on Twitter @paulashwin I have recently published a book in which I offer a manifesto for transforming university education. I was therefore fascinated…

  • Andrew Connors: The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19

    5 November 2020 by Andrew Connors

    This is a written transcript of Andrew Connors’s (Head of Higher Education, Lloyds Bank) introductory remarks at the recent HEPI / Lloyds webinar on ‘The long-term impact of COVID-19 on the higher education sector’. You can now watch the full recording here. I wrote here back in April that the…

  • Blended learning: a long-term shift in pedagogy

    4 November 2020 by Stephanie Marshall

    This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Stephanie Marshall, Vice Principal (Education)Queen Mary University of London. Blended learning is nothing new. It was a pedagogic approach used as early as 1436, when Gutenburg invented his printing press, facilitating inexpensive mass-production of books. Subsequently, rather than the pedagogue reading from a…

  • Let’s put the student voice at the heart of our International Education Strategy

    3 November 2020 by Anne-Marie Graham

    This blog was kindly contributed by Anne-Marie Graham, Chief Executive at UKCISA.   When the International Education Strategy was first published last year it set a clear intention and commitment to the sector that international education was firmly on the Government’s agenda – with a specific target to increase international…

  • White under-achievement in education

    2 November 2020 by Mary Curnock Cook

    Mary Curnock Cook casts an eye over the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into Left Behind White Pupils from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook Earlier this month, Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow and Chair of the Education Select Committee, launched an inquiry into Left Behind White Pupils…