This blog on yesterday’s announcement about this summer’s public exams has been written by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. He has previously produced much of HEPI’s past output on A-Levels, including 1 school exam grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? I’ve just been reading about the proposed arrangements for…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong (and a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster) in response to the latest HEPI, report After demand driven funding in Australia: Competing models for distributing student places to universities, courses and students by Professor…
This blog was kindly contributed by Vincenzo Raimo, Chief Relationship Officer at Unilodgers and Adjunct Professor of Global Higher Education at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology and Dr Janet Ilieva, Director and Founder of Education Insight. There is little certainty about what the impact of Covid-19 on…
This blog was kindly contributed by Eluned Parrott, Director of the Unite Foundation, the UK’s biggest provider of scholarships to care-leavers and estranged students. As the sector responds to the spread of Covid-19, the question of whether our thought processes are entirely inclusive once again springs to mind. Working with…
This blog has been written by Bethan Cornell, a PhD student at King’s College London. What might be the implications for doctoral (PhD) students and postdoctoral researchers that are unable to work due to Covid-19, either because of self-isolation or departmental closure? Work on projects may have to stop –…
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,…