This week we will be running a selection of chapters from our recently released report, ‘What is the student voice? Thirteen essays on how to listen to students and how to act on what they say‘ edited by Michael Natzler, HEPI Policy Officer. Today’s piece is by Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor…
This blog was written by: Professor Debra Humphris, Chair of University Alliance and Vice-Chancellor, University of Brighton; Dr John Smith, Chief Executive of Brighton Academies Trust; Ian Dunn, Provost, Coventry University; and Uly Lyons, Chief Executive of the Better Futures Multi Academy Trust. In a speech to the school sector in April…
This blog was written by Michael Natzler, HEPI’s Policy Officer. Michael’s Twitter is @Michael_Natzler. A record number of students will be starting higher education in a few weeks. There will be more new students than last year, reflecting the increase in the number of 18 year-olds in the population and…
This blog was kindly contributed by Daniel Dipper who is going into his second year at the University of Oxford. Daniel’s Twitter is @DanielDipper1. Many University of Oxford students have commented on the jump from sixth form or college to university. This transition is potentially exaggerated by findings that students…
By Professor Stephanie Marshall, Vice-Principal (Education) at Queen Mary University of London. Stephanie’s Twitter is @SmarshallYork. In March 2020, we saw the start of perhaps the biggest global crisis of the twenty-first century: the COVID-19 pandemic. Naturally, governments and businesses in every corner of the world turned their attention to…
This blog was kindly contributed by Lee Elliot Major and Kieran Tompkins. Lee is Professor of Social Mobility at the University of Exeter and Kieran is a 2021 Business and Management graduate at the University of Exeter. You can find Lee on Twitter @Lem_Exeter. For the pandemic generation of A-level…
This blog was kindly contributed by Jeremy Yallop who is a trustee of the Home Educators’ Qualifications Association. Ofqual is England’s exams regulator, established in 2010 as an independent body to increase public confidence in standards. For a decade, it worked effectively to keep grade inflation at bay. Then, in…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood who has for a long time been covering all things A-levels, Ofqual and exams for HEPI. You can follow him on Twitter here: @noookophile. The A-level and AS results will be announced next week on Tuesday 10 August and the GCSE results…
This blog was kindly contributed by Nicola Frampton, Insight Manager at Student Minds. You can follow Nicola on Twitter @nicola_frampton and Student Minds @StudentMindsOrg. Over the last 18 months, higher education communities have faced the wide-reaching challenges and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in the shift to online…
This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Tom is writing on the back of two recent HEPI reports on students’ experiences of sex, sexual health and relationships in higher education. Tom’s Twitter is @TommyShakes. I first…