This blog has been contributed by Fred Singer, CEO of Echo360. As the new academic year begins, universities across the country will be putting strategies in place to help reduce the 7.6% of full-time, first degree entrants at English higher education institutions who are no longer studying their courses the…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Nate Johnson, Principal Consultant of Florida-based Postsecondary Analytics Income-driven or income-contingent student loans and their policy cousins have become popular financing mechanisms for higher education in English-speaking countries over the last few decades. Australia led the way starting in 1989 by essentially building student loan…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by David Best, Director of Analysis and Insights at UCAS UCAS has been providing school and area-level contextual data (e.g. POLAR3) to universities for over a decade. So we were delighted to see students’ views expressed in the recent HEPI Report mirror…
This blog has been contributed by Professor Martin Paul, President of Maastricht University Last year I was in London waiting for a friend when a young man approached me. To my surprise, he recognised me, and said: ‘You are Martin Paul. I am a UK citizen and I studied law at Maastricht and I just…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook, HE expert and senior adviser with Cairneagle Associates, and Christoffer Fogtdal, Strategy Consultant at Cairneagle Associates This analysis of the UK A level entries and outcomes is designed to get under the skin of trends for A level subjects and to…
This blog has been contributed by Professor Colin McCaig, Sheffield Hallam University. With the publication of, and ongoing fall-out from, the Augar Review of Post-18 Finance, it has become clear that there is a surprising degree of misunderstanding about various aspects of the HE market established in England over the…
Dear Ofqual, Thank you for making your position on grade (un)reliability so explicit in the statement posted on your website on Sunday, 11 August. But may I seek clarification on some of the content, please? Firstly, you state: …more than one grade could well be a legitimate reflection of a student’s performance…
This blog has been contributed by Professor Tristram Hooley, Chief Research Officer of the Institute of Student Employers (ISE). The ISE is an employer association that is focused on entry-level and early-career recruitment. When you work or study in the education system, it can be very difficult to gain a…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Professor Dave Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University The Augar Review has provided much to consider; and one area on which it shines a gentle light is that of “Non-Prescribed” qualifications. For those who are unfamiliar, Non-Prescribed courses lead to qualifications, which,…
This is a guest blog kindly contributed by Professor Nick Braisby, Vice-Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University Whatever one may think of the Augar report and its varied recommendations, it appears to have focused generally on the right questions and to have appropriately considered existing research and evidence. However, one section…