This blog was kindly contributed by Ying Yang, formerly an education agent in China. Ying is pursuing a PhD at Manchester Institute of Education investigating the role of education agents in the marketization in China of British postgraduate programmes. For many academics, the important role of education agents in shaping…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Suresh Gamlath, Dean of the Claude Littner Business School, University of West London. The Claude Littner Business School was named Business School of the Year at the Times Higher Education awards in 2019 in light of work to reduce the ethnic minority student…
This blog was kindly contributed by Paul Hayes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser, and Paul Spendlove, Graduate Outcomes Manager, at the University of Portsmouth. Graduates’ destinations – the jobs graduates do – are clearly a central part of the value for money debate. Until recently, data about graduates’…
This blog was kindly contributed by Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol and Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University. From 2012 – 2018 she was Arts and Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow for the UKRI Connected Communities Research Programme. As…
Lucian J. Hudson is the lead author of Universities at the Crossroads (Policy Exchange, 2020). He is a former Director of Communications at the University of Oxford and The Open University. Spring green shoots have come early to the UK higher education sector with the publication of two new reports,…
This blog was kindly contributed by Claire Callender, Professor of Higher Education at both Birkbeck University of London and UCL, Institute of Education where she is Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education. Part-time undergraduate higher education study helps transform lives and drive economies. It is central to…
This blog was kindly contributed by Vincenzo Raimo, Chief Relationship Officer at Unilodgers and a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Having recently left university employment for the tech start-up Unilodgers, I am having to adapt to very different ways of working and (re)learning lessons which might also be valuable to some of my…
This guest blog has been written in a personal capacity by Dr Diana Beech (Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick). Diana was Policy Adviser for higher education to various Ministers for Universities and Science (Sam Gyimah, Jo Johnson and Chris Skidmore – twice!), a role she fulfilled…
This blog was contributed by Lucian J. Hudson, former Director of Communications at The Open University, University of Oxford and Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Lucian has co-authored a new paper with Iain Mansfield, which Policy Exchange has published this morning. This paper is based on more than 50 interviews with…
This blog was kindly contributed by Susan Smith, Associate Dean (Education and Students) at the University of Sussex Business School. All graphs in this article use data from the HESA Student Record. As the higher education sector prepares to help the government realise its ambitious target of 600,000 international students…