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This piece is the latest in a series by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the developments around Ofqual and public exams this year. You can find Dennis on Twitter @noookophile . On Tuesday, 11 August at 10am, HEPI is hosting an ‘In Conversation’ session with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive…

This blog was kindly contributed by Ben Jordan, Head of Policy at UCAS. Next week on Tuesday 11th at 10am, Nick Hillman and Rachel Hewitt are leading an ‘In Conversation’ session with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS. Places are limited: sign up here. In many ways, the 2020 entry…

This blog was kindly contributed by a team of researchers at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. They are Weiyan Xiong, Assistant Professor (Research), Jin Jiang, Assistant Professor (Research), and Ka Ho Mok, Chair Professor of Comparative Policy. Online Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, online…

'This shows that a trade-off between local, national and international is unnecessary and even counterproductive. Much civic activity is complementary to national and international ambitions.'

This blog was written by Bethan Cornell, author of PhD Life: The UK student experience and PhD students and their careers. I have often been asked whether or not the ‘leaky pipeline’, which describes the large numbers of PhD students and early career researchers who leave academia, is really a…

This blog was kindly contributed by Phil Kwok, Co-founder of EasyA tutoring. You can find him on LinkedIn or email at phil@easya.co.uk. In a previous blog post, Bethan Cornell wrote about how we can use Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) to boost support for university students during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Rather…

This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Amir Sharif, Associate Dean (International and Accreditations) and Professor of Circular Economy. Amir tweets as @amsharif . This blog has taken me 23 years to write. An inordinantly long time for a blog post! But in truth, it has taken me this length…

This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and incoming Chief Executive Officer of London Higher. You can find Diana on Twitter @dianajbeech . England’s higher education sector is no stranger to Government challenge. Over the past five…

This blog was kindly contributed by Sarah Main, Executive Director of CaSE and Professor Graeme Reid, Chair of Science and Research Policy at UCL. You can find them both on Twitter @drsarahmain and @GraemeTR . Higher education and research organisations across Europe have called for continued UK participation in EU…