In this report, Gabriel Roberts looks at the current challenges facing the humanities. The author analyses the humanities’ performance in three different areas – student enrolment, graduate employment and funding – and explores how any challenges might be overcome.
This blog was written by Daniel Dipper, a current student at the University of Oxford. Daniel is on Twitter @DanielDipper1. This article intends to outline the initiatives that supported me to get to the University of Oxford, being the first in my immediate family to go to university and coming…
Today’s blog was contributed by Naimatullah Zafary, an Afghan Chevening scholar and Ruth Arnold, Senior Advisor to Study Group and co-founder of the #WeAreInternational campaign. Ruth is on Twitter @RuthArnold. On 28 August the last British flight evacuating civilians from Afghanistan left Kabul, bringing to an end an operation that…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood who writes for HEPI about Ofqual, A levels and examinations. You can follow him on Twitter @noookophile. On 7 September 2021, the Education Select Committee met with the Minister for School Standards, Nick Gibb; the Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education,…
Today’s blog was kindly contributed by Linda Cowan, Managing Director at Kaplan International Pathways. Linda is on Twitter @LCpathways. Last week’s report, The costs and benefits of international higher education students to the UK economy, published by UUKi and HEPI with research from London Economics, showed the net economic benefit…
Today’s blog was contributed by The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP Former Universities Minister (2018-2020), Co-Chair, All Party Group on Universities and Chair of the UPP Foundation Advisory Board. This is the foreword from today’s report by the UPP Foundation and The Bridge Group. You can find Chris on Twitter…
This blog was kindly written by Adam Habib, Director at SOAS, University of London. Adam’s Twitter is @AdHabb. HEPI’s recently released report on internationa students, produced in conjunction with the Universities UK International Unit and London Economics, has been received with much fanfare. The report suggests that the 496,000 international…
Mary Stuart, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lincoln and board member of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), and Ceri Nursaw, Chief Executive of NCEE, talk about the future of leadership. The NCEE will report in early autumn 2021 on leadership in higher education following a survey of…
Today’s blog was kindly contributed by Dawid Konotey-Ahulu, Co-Founder and Trustee of 10000BlackInterns. Dawid is on Twitter @Dawid1. UK industry is predominantly male and pale. Everyone knows it and, in the last decade, various initiatives and campaigns have attempted to change at least the gender bias. The 30% Club, for…
Today’s blog is by Philip Booth, Director of the Vinson Centre for the Public Understanding of Economics and Professor of Economics at the University of Buckingham. Governments want many contradictory things. They desire high levels of government spending but not high levels of taxation. They want to reduce carbon emissions…