This guest blog has been kindly contributed by David Willock, Managing Director, Head of ESG Finance & Structuring at Lloyds Bank, who are sponsoring the webinar on ‘From COVID to COP26: What more could higher education institutions do to drive environmental sustainability?’ taking place on 8 June 2021 – further…
This blog was contributed by Tom Fryer, a PhD researcher at University of Manchester. Tom has written for HEPI before about comprehensive universities. You can find Tom on Twitter @TomFryer4 There is a lot to like about Tuesday’s HEPI blog from Johnny Rich and Stella Fowler on the contribution of…
This blog was kindly contributed by Chris Davies, a third year Classics undergraduate at New College, Oxford. You can find Chris on Twitter @chris_davies5. Chris writes about the importance of volunteer-led student tuition which studies (here and here) have shown to be ‘highly effective’. For educational policymakers, the benefits of…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood. Dennis has been writing for HEPI about A levels and exam marking over the last few years. You can find Dennis on Twitter @noookophile. Suppose that Mr Sherwood is right, and that, on average, one exam grade in every four is wrong.…
This blog was contributed by Johnny Rich (Chief Executive) and Stella Fowler (Policy Manager) from the Engineering Professors’ Council, the representative body of Engineering academics in UK universities. You can find Johnny on Twitter @JohnnySRich The Government is keen to use graduate earnings as a metric for the value of…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dan Beynon, Head of Education at SMRS, which works with more than 30 universities supporting them with strategic marketing and consultancy. Dan has been working with universities in the UK and internationally for the last 21 years. SMRS, in partnership with the Universities Marketing Forum (UMF) and…
This blog was contributed by Simone Eringfeld is an educational researcher, poet and musician who uses sound-based methods such as podcasting and spoken word poetry in her academic work. For her MPhil thesis on hopes and fears for the post-coronial university, she received the BERA Masters Dissertation Award (2021). PLEASE…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University. Chris also co-authored HEPI Paper 125 ‘Making Universities Matter: How higher education can help to heal a divided Britain’. You can find Chris on Twitter @Hallam_VC. There are ominous storm clouds gathering on the horizon for…
This blog was kindly contributed by Andy Westwood, Professor of Government Practice at the University of Manchester. Andy is writing in a personal capacity and can be found at @andywwestwood on Twitter. It is good that the authors of HEPI’s report ‘Regional Policy and R&D’ note that the UK, by most agreed…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Associate Professor Julie Attenborough from City, University of London. She is outgoing Chair of London Higher’s Healthcare Education Group (LHEG), which provides a forum for London’s higher education institutions that teach, train or conduct research in the healthcare professions. You can find Julie on Twitter at @CityJoolz. …