This blog was kindly contributed by Megan Bowler, author of the HEPI Report A Languages Crisis? HEPI’s important and timely new publication UK Universities and China raises important proposals on the need for the UK’s higher education sector to strengthen its collaboration with China and to provide a more welcoming…
HEPI is reproducing here the speech that Glyn Davis, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne (from 2005 to 2018), made earlier this week to the fifth Buckingham Festival of HE, which was held with support by Pearson and on which HEPI partnered. Glyn is now the Chief Executive…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sophie Cloutterbuck, Director of London Engagement, London Metropolitan University. Over the last two years, there has been a movement to draw attention to the role of universities as civic institutions. The Civic University Commission was set up by UPP Foundation in 2018. The Foundation…
This blog was kindly contributed by Gordon Marsden, Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019. You can find him on Twitter @GordonMarsden. Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Lines from the Irish writer W.B. Yeats poem,…
People growing up on the estate where I work are more likely to go without breakfast than progress to higher education.
This blog was written by HEPI intern and KCL Physics PhD student Bethan Cornell. Bethan is the author of the recent HEPI publication, PhD Life: The Student Experience. Earlier this week, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the Government’s UK Research and Development Roadmap, outlining how…
An anonymous senior figure in an English university responds to the end of the Office for Students’s consultation on the integrity and stability of the English higher education sector . A month after it was promised, the Office for Students (OfS) has published a response to its consultation on the…
This blog was kindly contributed in a personal capacity by Jack Ruane, MA Student in Education, Health Promotion and International Development at the UCL Institute of Education. This research has formed the basis of his dissertation and a report to be published on behalf of EAUC. Jack is not on…
This blog was kindly contributed by Ronel Lehmann founder of Finito, which helps individuals find employment, drawing on their strengths and weaknesses and matching them with employers that suit them. A few years ago, HMRC cracked down on ‘exploitative’ employers who were frowned on for using graduates as cheap labour…
This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Calver and Professor Malcolm Press, Manchester Metropolitan University. The recent Nesta paper from Tom Forth and Richard Jones is an excellent and accessible summary of the regional imbalances in Research & Development (R&D) funding. Their analysis of the situation should capture the imagination…