This blog was written by former HEPI intern and author of HEPI Report 123 ‘A Languages crisis?’, Megan Bowler. Megan is in her third year at the University of Oxford and has previously blogged for HEPI on topics from the gender divide in languages study to learning languages one at…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. Dennis has produced much of HEPI’s past output about A-Levels, including 1 school grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? and Trusting teachers is the best way to deliver this years’ exam results – and those in future…
This guest blog has kindly been contributed by Luke Cavanaugh, undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. Covid-19 will confront the British higher education system with as large an economic and structural challenge as it has ever seen, but its students must not bear the brunt of the financial consequences. A…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Mary Curnock Cook, who is a member of HEPI’s Advisory Board, Chair of Council at the Dyson Institute, Chair of Trustees of the Access Project, a Council member at the Open University and a non-exec Director at the Student Loans…
This guest blog has been provided by Dr Gary Gates, Senior Vice President of Pearson – UK Higher Education and Pearson VUE. Pearson is the world’s learning company providing content, assessment and digital online services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We need our universities to be…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Andrew Connors, Head of Higher Education at Lloyds Banking Group. It does not seem very long ago that those involved in the higher education sector talked about the perfect storm. The colliding forces were a consistent decline in the number of 18-year-olds in…
This blog by Tristram Hooley, Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Student Employers and Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby, considers the implications of Covid-19 for graduate employment. Covid-19 has had a profound impact on all sectors, with higher education feeling its share of the pain.…
This blog was kindly contributed by David Hawkins, Director and Founder at the University Guys. Much of the debate in the UK about international student for the 2020 application cycle has ignored one key issue: the choices that students might make about coming in 2020 or 2021 may not take…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Anne Marie Graham, the Chief Executive of UKCISA (the UK Council for International Student Affairs). In the turmoil of the Coronavirus crisis, student wellbeing remains of primary importance to UK institutions. The welfare of international students presents some specific challenges, many of which…
This blog has been contributed by Professor John Taylor, Visiting Professor at the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. He is the author of The Impact of the First World War on British Universities: Emerging from the Shadows (2018). His earlier HEPI blog on the First World War and higher…