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The HEPI Blog aims to make brief, incisive contributions to the higher education policy landscape. It is circulated to our subscribers and published online. We welcome guest submissions, which should follow our Instructions for Blog Authors. Submissions should be sent to our Blog Editor, Josh Freeman, at [email protected].

  • Disaggregating BAME to look at awarding gaps more closely

    16 July 2021 by Richard Boffey

    This blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Richard Boffey, Head of AccessHE, the pan-London network driving the higher education access, success and progression agenda for underrepresented learners across the capital. You can find Richard and AccessHE on Twitter at @rgboffey and @AccessHE. Of the 24 recommendations put forward in…

  • Putting academic freedom on a solid footing

    12 July 2021 by Dean Machin

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dean Machin, Head of Policy at the University of Portsmouth, who writes here in a personal capacity. Today the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill comes to the House of Commons. The sector seems split on its significance. Is it an attempt to trigger…

  • The Market Review Consultation on the Future Shape of Teacher Education and Training

    9 July 2021 by John Cater

    John Cater is immediate past Chair of the UniversitiesUK / GuildHE Teacher Education Advisory Group, a former Chair of both the Accreditation and Audit Committees of the Teacher Training Agency and its successor body. John is also the author of HEPI Report 95, ‘Whither Teacher Education and Training? ‘(2017). He writes…

  • Careers Education for the ‘no-collar’ worker

    7 July 2021 by Nikita Khandwala & Mary Curnock Cook

    Nikita Khandwala (@nikitakhandwala) is an Insights analyst at LinkedIn and co-founder of Unbox. She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2020 and is a member of the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission, chaired by Mary Curnock Cook (@MaryCurnockCook), who has also contributed to this blog. COVID-19 has accelerated the…

  • Can we assess ‘job quality’ using the Graduate Outcomes survey?

    6 July 2021 by Tom Fryer

    This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Fryer, a PhD researcher at University of Manchester. Tom has written for HEPI before about comprehensive universities and about how to define a graduate outcome. You can find Tom on Twitter @TomFryer4. HESA’s report from 8 June 2021, Graduate Outcomes: A statistical measure of…

  • Place-based research funding: a perspective from a place seeking to level-up

    5 July 2021 by Mary Stuart & Liz Shutt

    By Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor, University of Lincoln and Liz Shutt, Director of Policy, University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership. You can find Liz on Twitter @LizShutt. Successful advances in productivity remain a challenge for the UK and the drivers that have created the UK’s economic…