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This blog was kindly contributed by Ronel Lehmann founder of Finito, which helps individuals find employment, drawing on their strengths and weaknesses and matching them with employers that suit them. A few years ago, HMRC cracked down on ‘exploitative’ employers who were frowned on for using graduates as cheap labour…
Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, writes today about next week’s Festival of Higher Education, which HEPI is helping to support. The fifth Festival of Higher Education is completely free and has a dazzling line up. Universities are rightly spending much time on the immediate and short term.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Calver and Professor Malcolm Press, Manchester Metropolitan University. The recent Nesta paper from Tom Forth and Richard Jones is an excellent and accessible summary of the regional imbalances in Research & Development (R&D) funding. Their analysis of the situation should capture the imagination…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Liz Morrish, a Visiting Fellow at York St John University and author of two HEPI reports: Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health among higher education staff (HEPI Occasional Paper 20), May 2019; and Pressure Vessels II: An update on mental health…
This guest blog was kindly written and contributed in a personal capacity by Dr Diana Beech, Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and former Policy Adviser to the last three Ministers of State for Universities and Science. She was also HEPI’s first Director of Policy and Advocacy.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire and Eileen Smith from Oracle. Today’s blog is the third this week we have posted on edtech, the first was on the student experience and the second was on e-assessment. One bright spot within the pandemic is that it has pushed information…
This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew JT George, executive coach and consultant in education and healthcare. Andrew has previously held senior positions in Brunel University London and Imperial College London. Deep underground, tectonic plates bump and grind against each other, building immense pressure. The tensions remain latent and unrecognised…
This blog was kindly contributed by Nicholas Freestone, Associate Professor in Physiology and Pharmacology and the Higher Education Academy’s / Royal Society of Biology’s UK HE Bioscience Teacher of the Year in 2014/15. This year, Nicholas is in the running for a Guardian University Award as Course Director of a…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor David Maguire, Chair of Jisc and interim Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee (as well as a member of the HEPI Advisory Board). The recent transition to online learning has been as rapid as it has been impressive. Many universities have…
This blog was kindly contributed by by Dr. Leeza Osipenko, Dr. Sultan Alotaibi, Alexandra Schuster, Dr. Bernardo Perez and Ksenya Prudyus from the London School of Economics. The team at LSE Health Policy is running The LockedDown initiative in collaboration with HealthBit collecting global experiences of university students and staff…