This blog was kindly contributed by Professor David Voas, Head of the UCL Social Research Institute. Members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) are losing a key benefit, and almost no one knows it. Currently, you have the option to increase your pension income on favourable terms by giving up…
This guest post has been kindly contributed by Huy Duong, who has been described by the Guardian as ‘the father who foresaw A-level algorithm flaws’. Huy thanks Professor George Constantinides, Professor Rob Cuthbert, Professor Mike Larkin and Mr Dennis Sherwood for important discussion and help in writing this article. Ofqual’s…
Dennis Sherwood has been tracking this year’s ‘exam’ round for HEPI. Here, he responds to the latest announcements – or u-turn – on using Centre-Assessment Grades. Good news! So now we know. After all the anguish since the A-level results were announced on 13 August, teachers’ Centre Assessment Grades (CAGs) will…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook, who is a HEPI Trustee, 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 Company – as well as the…
This blog has been contributed by Rob Cuthbert, an independent consultant at Practical Academics and an Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management. This piece follows on from his previous HEPI blog, ‘A-Levels 2020: what students and parents need to know’. The horror show that is A-levels in 2020 descended to complete farce…
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. This week Pearson released its second…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Professor Rama Thirunamachandran, Chair of MillionPlus, The Association for Modern Universities, and the Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University. There is no area of our lives that has not in some way been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the education sector,…
This blog is the latest in a series by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the 2020 results round for HEPI. As a result of the public uproar following the ‘adjusting down’ of around 124,000 centre assessment grades (CAGs) – about one-quarter of all grades submitted – Scotland’s Education Secretary, John Swinney, has now binned ‘statistical standardisation”…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Amy Low, who is Service Delivery Director of AbilityNet, which supports people of any age, living with any disability or impairment to use technology to achieve their goals at home, at work and in education. The Disabled Students’ Commission has not…
This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management, University of the West of England. You can find Rob on Twitter @RobCuthbert. As A-Level results day (Thursday, 13 August) looms, there is still widespread misunderstanding among students and parents about how grades have been determined.…