This blog was kindly contributed by Jefferson Frank, Professor of Economics, Royal Holloway, and Norman Gowar, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of London. (Jefferson Frank can be contacted here.) In January 2019, we published English Universities in Crisis: markets without competition. Our analysis showed the market failure from the threefold…
This blog was kindly contributed by Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation. Before working in higher education, Richard worked for two Conservative MPs (2007-2009). This article is written in a personal capacity and is not the view of the UPP Foundation. Richard has previously blogged for HEPI on free…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Paul Woodgates, head of Higher Education at PA Consulting, and Mike Boxall, Special Adviser to PA Consulting. For more information visit www.paconsulting.com/education This is by no means the first time that British universities have faced predictions of existential doom, still less huge…
This guest post has been kindly contributed by Diana Blamires, the former Head of Public Relations at the University of Buckingham. She can be found on Twitter @diana_blamires. Nothing is more important than PR right now. While universities shudder on the brink of possible disaster, PR is the best card…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Professor Neil Morris, Chair in Educational Technology, School of Education, University of Leeds. He can be found at @NeilMorrisLeeds The Unbundled University research project, funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC grant number ES/P002102/1) and the National Research Foundation…
This is the second blog contributed by Luke Cavanaugh, an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. Luke previously wrote about how students must not bear the brunt of universities’ woes in the turmoil of Covid-19. Covid-19 has caused a shock to the university system that is likely to be felt…
This blog was kindly contributed by Lucian J. Hudson, Chair, Earthwatch Europe and past Director of Communications, University of Oxford and The Open University. Lucian has previously blogged for HEPI on leadership for the higher education sector, reflecting on issues from widening participation to the priorities for driving into the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Stephen Allen and Dr Matt Watson, two academics at the University of Sheffield who recently held a conference on the flying habits of academics. To mark World Earth Day, the HEPI blog is exploring some ways universities can reduce their carbon footprint. To…
This blog was kindly contributed by Alex Blower who, having worked in university outreach teams since 2012, began his doctoral research at the University of Wolverhampton in 2016. Located in the West Midlands, his study explores the formation of white working-class boys’ expectations for their future in education and work.…
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…