This blog was contributed by Professor Ross Renton, the inaugural Principal of ARU Peterborough – a new university for the city. ARU Peterborough is being led by Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, Peterborough City Council, and Anglia Ruskin University, and will open in September 2022. The post-pandemic mass return to…
This blog was contributed by Gary Attle, Partner and Head of Education & Governance for Mills & Reeve LLP. During the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Office for Students as the regulator for higher education in England took steps to reduce the regulatory requirements which had to be met by registered…
Paul Woodgates is an independent adviser and non-executive director in the HE sector. Perhaps we always suspected that student debt would take its toll on graduates. But in their HEPI Report, Hidden Voices: Graduates’ Perspectives on the Student Loan System in England, Claire Callender and Ariane de Gayardon present a…
‘Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start.’ This blog was contributed by John Claughton, Co-Founder of WoLLoW: The World of Languages and Languages of the World and Honorary Research Fellow in Classics Ancient History and Egyptology within the School of Arts Languages and cultures at…
This blog was contributed by David Woolley, Director of Student and Community Engagement at Nottingham Trent University. The Government has expressed its intention to refocus the entire Access and Participation regime. This should not be a surprise; there have long been questions over the impact of the significant sums spent…
The Government is about to redefine higher education to include courses that are no higher than A-Level or GCSE standards. We should all be worried, says HEPI’s Founder and President, Bahram Bekhradnia. Dumbing down in higher education is to be deplored. Government rhetoric about this has been consistent and clear, not…
This blog was contributed by Fiona Ellison, Director of the Unite Foundation. It is estimated that there area over 16,000 estranged and care experienced young people at university across the UK. In its latest insight brief, Office for Students acknowledges that, over the past 20 years, higher education has become…
In a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), graduates in England explain their views on the student loan system, praising its income-contingent and repayment features but criticising the high fees and large debts. Hidden Voices: Graduates’ Perspectives on the Student…
England’s higher education funding system has been reformed many times, leading to a system based on high fees and loans. Undergraduate tuition fees for full-time students were introduced in 1998 and rose to £3,000 a year in 2006, increasing further to £9,000 in 2021. Through a series of in-depth interviews,…
This blog was contributed by Professor David Latchman, Vice-Chancellor at Birkbeck, University of London. After 18-months of enforced online learning, it is not surprising that most students were keen to return to onsite teaching and the unique opportunities that in-person university life presents. There are good reasons why the in-person model…