This blog was contributed by Jenny Shaw, Higher External Education Engagement Director at Unite Students. So much of student life is shaped by the experience of being in student accommodation. Living in a student community, making new friends, meeting people from different backgrounds, managing day-to-day life independently are all learning…
Ian Matthias is head of higher education at PA Consulting and Mike Boxall is a higher education expert at PA Consulting. Click here for more information on PA’s work in higher education or download a copy of ‘A Differentiated Future’ here and PA’s paper on ‘Tomorrow’s Universities, Today’ here. Having…
Ruth Arnold is a Senior Advisor to Study Group and was previously the Director of Public Affairs at The University of Sheffield. In his Daily Mail opinion piece trailing the Levelling Up White Paper, Secretary of State for Levelling Up Michael Gove described the country and the economy in terms of a jet plane…
This guest blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the representative body for the UK’s largest regional higher education powerhouse in London. Diana was previously Policy Adviser to the last three Universities Ministers, and you can find her on Twitter at…
Dr Joan O’ Mahony is Director of Academic Development at Bloomsbury Institute London. Previously she was Senior Advisor (Teaching and Learning) at Advance HE, and before that the Academic Lead for Student Retention at the Higher Education Academy. The purpose of any policy consultation by a regulatory body is to…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Clare Bottle Chief Executive of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA). People who work in warehousing often share amusing anecdotes about how they fell into the profession unexpectedly. But it’s no joke. More than 7 per cent of the UK’s workforce is employed in…
This guest blog has been kindly written by Sally Burtonshaw, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at London Higher – the representative body for the UK’s largest regional higher education powerhouse. You can find Sally on Twitter at @SallyBurtonshaw. As the dust begins to settle on the 699 pages of Office…
This blog was contributed by Elena Wilson, Policy Manager at the Edge Foundation. The lack of ‘policy memory’ amongst policy makers has become a key problem in English further (FE) and higher education (HE) policy making (Watson, 2011). The rapid churn in government, change in ministerial teams and the rotation…
This blog was contributed by Dr. John Cater, Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University and the immediate past Chair of the Universities UK/Guild HE Teacher Education Advisory Group. He writes here in a personal capacity. Few will remember CATE, the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. But history repeats…
This blog was contributed by Professor Susan Lea, University of Hull Vice Chancellor. The Government’s focus on place, tackling inequality through levelling up, boosting productivity and developing a green economy is roundly welcomed. The image of a better and brighter future for all is both reassuring and seductive. Yet, whilst…