This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Fryer, a PhD researcher at University of Manchester. Tom has written for HEPI before about comprehensive universities and about how to define a graduate outcome. You can find Tom on Twitter @TomFryer4. HESA’s report from 8 June 2021, Graduate Outcomes: A statistical measure of…
By Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor, University of Lincoln and Liz Shutt, Director of Policy, University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership. You can find Liz on Twitter @LizShutt. Successful advances in productivity remain a challenge for the UK and the drivers that have created the UK’s economic…
This blog was contributed by Professor Frances Corner OBE, Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London and Executive Chair of London Higher’s new Sustainability network. You can find Frances on Twitter @FCorner. In the run up to November’s postponed COP26, the conversation around climate change is gaining pace. This week sees…
This blog was authored by Jon Wakeford, Director of Sector Engagement at UPP and Chair of the UPP Foundation. It is based on the speech that Jon delivered at HEPI’s Annual Conference on 24 June, which was co-sponsored by UPP and Lloyds Bank You can find Jon on Twitter @Jon_Wakeford.…
Today’s blog was kindly contributed by Professor Emma McCoy, Interim Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) at Imperial College London. You can find the Imperial Learning and Teaching on Twitter @Imperial_LT With the latest stage of lockdown restrictions having been lifted in May, universities’ campuses have welcomed back students who have…
This blog was authored by the Reverend Professor Philip McCormack, Principal of Spurgeon’s College – a higher education institution which teaches courses in Theology, Counselling and Leadership. The COVID pandemic has made it more necessary than ever for us to consider what skills we collectively need as a society to…
Professor Sir David Melville CBE, Board Member, Policy Connect and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent kindly contributed this blog. University research in the UK has always remained at the forefront of invention. The success of the Oxford University – AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is testament to the ingenuity and dynamism which…
John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the UK Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford has kindly contributed this blog. You can reach out to John via his email, [email protected] ***LAST CHANCE TO SIGN…
This blog on last year’s results fiasco has been kindly written for HEPI by Dennis Sherwood, whose past articles for HEPI can all be found here. ***DON’T FORGET TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THIS YEAR’S HEPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE, TAKING PLACE THIS THURSDAY, WHICH IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY LLOYDS BANK AND…
This guest blog has been written by Andrew Connors, Midlands Regional Head of Large Corporates and Head of Higher Education and Charities with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Andrew is among the speakers at this week’s HEPI Annual Conference, on Thursday 24 June, which Lloyds Bank and UPP are sponsoring –…