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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…
This blog was kindly contributed by Susanna Kalitowski, Head of Policy, University Alliance. You can follow University Alliance on Twitter @UniAlliance. The National Health Service is enjoying a unique moment in its 73 year-old history as its value is brought into sharp focus by the COVID pandemic. After months of…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Anne Carlisle OBE, Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, Falmouth University. Last week, the Creative Industries Federation published a new report, The UK Creative Industries: unleashing the power and potential of creativity, showcasing and celebrating the economic impact and global reach of the UK’s Creative…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Giles Carden, Chief of Staff at Lancaster University. In recent months much ink has been spilled speculating on what shape and form the Government’s consultation on English tertiary education funding will take. The consultation is now expected to be published in line…
Rob Cuthbert is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of the West of England and Managing Partner of the Practical Academics consultancy. He wrote the 2020 HEPI blog ‘A-levels 2020: What students and parents need to know’ (which has had more hits than any other HEPI blog…