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  • A Free Speech Champion or Censor?

    16 July 2022 by Dean Machin

    Dean Machin is Head of Public Policy at the University of Portsmouth. He is a former philosopher who has advised David Willetts. In 2015, he wrote a report on data-sharing for the Social Mobility Commission. Dean is writing here in a personal capacity. By the time the Free Speech Bill returns…

  • BTEC cull? Unpalatable impacts for Health & Social Care and Engineering progression

    15 July 2022 by Mary Curnock Cook

    This blog was kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook CBE, Chair of Pearson Education Ltd, the UK-regulated qualifications arm of Pearson. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook. The start of 2022 opened with a strong show of support for the Level 3 BTEC and Applied General qualifications, with more…

  • Why University Governors Should Do More to Protect Academic Quality

    14 July 2022 by Dr Alex Bols

    A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Why it is time for university governors to do more on academic quality (HEPI Policy Note 36), notes the growing responsibility that boards of higher education institutions have on issues of academic quality. The report, which focuses mainly on England, calls on governors…

  • Why University Governors Should Do More to Protect Academic Quality

    14 July 2022 by Dr Alex Bols

    A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Why it is time for university governors to do more on academic quality (HEPI Policy Note 36), notes the growing responsibility that boards of higher education institutions have on issues of academic quality. The report, which focuses mainly on England, calls on governors…

  • Why aren’t more graduates going into SMEs when they leave college or university?

    13 July 2022 by Lucy Haire and Laura Brassington at HEPI in conversation with Clare Adams, Joanne Patterson and Michael Harbaugh at Handshake

    By Lucy Haire and Laura Brassington at HEPI in conversation with Clare Adams, Joanne Patterson and Michael Harbaugh at Handshake. Handshake are on Twitter @joinhandshakeuk. Around 500,000 new graduates are leaving UK universities and colleges up and down the country this summer. Those long years of study, never-ending nights of revision and…

  • Examining the elusive ‘nexus’ between teaching and research 

    12 July 2022 by Joanna Thornborough

    This blog was written by Joanna Thornborough, Senior Policy Adviser (HE & Skills) at the British Academy. With uncertainty surrounding the UK’s association to Horizon Europe and a resurgence of COVID-19 cases threatening to cause more chaos when terms start afresh in September, academics could be forgiven for wanting to block out all thoughts…

  • The Textbook Problem and How to Solve It

    8 July 2022 by Rod Bristow

    This blog was written by Rod Bristow, who has worked internationally in assessment, qualifications and publishing for 40 years. Rod was President, Global Online Learning & UK at Pearson and is Past President of the Publishers Association. He is Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, an academy and…

  • The Open Access Opportunity: Building the Third Space

    6 July 2022 by Matt Flinders

    See our ‘Open Access 101’ by Dr Fiona Counsell, Head of Open Access Operations & Policy at Taylor & Francis, here. In her recent blog, Victoria Gardner explored whether open access was ‘the end or the means’? In this blog Matt Flinders argues that open access represents little more that the latest stage of a complex and…