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  • Investing in the future can see off the perfect storm

    6 September 2022 by Ian A. Greer

    This blog was kindly provided by Professor Ian A. Greer, President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. These are challenging times for us all. Internationally, we have war in Ukraine; nationally, we have a cost of living crisis; and locally, we have political uncertainty over whether a devolved government…

  • Book Review of Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

    2 September 2022 by Daniel Dipper

    This review was written by Daniel Dipper. Daniel is going into his third year of studying History and Politics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and is the current Oxford Union Librarian as well as Magdalen’s undergraduate president. Daniel was educated in a state comprehensive school and is the first in…

  • Lack of transparency is killing the Apprenticeship Levy and growth

    30 August 2022 by John Cope

    By John Cope, former ministerial adviser and board member of the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education. The recent story in the Financial Times that employers ‘lose more than £3.3bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds’ is the latest in a long line of gloomy stories around the Levy. We have lurched between…

  • A primer on the National Security and Investment Act

    23 August 2022 by Tom Morgan

    This blog was kindly provided by Tom Morgan, a lawyer specialising in the research and innovation sector at CMS. Under the National Security and Investment Act, which came into force earlier this year, the Government has two powers that particularly affect the research sector: The first is the power to intervene in…

  • The Russell Group responds to admissions 2022

    22 August 2022 by Adam Wynne

    This blog was contributed by Adam Wynne, Head of Policy (Higher Education) at the Russell Group. Another results day has passed and while the shadow of COVID19 still lingers there are still many positives to celebrate as we start returning to normality. With grade boundaries set somewhere between 2019 and…

  • Research excellence and widening access are not mutually exclusive

    21 August 2022 by Dr Maggie Leggett

    This blog has been written by Dr Maggie Leggett, the Director of External Relations at Queen Mary University of London Any suggestion that Russell Group universities pay only lip service to widening access is just wrong. At Queen Mary, 92 per cent of our home undergraduate students are from state…