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The latest polling of students arrives this morning from Unite Students. A rapid survey of 1,000 people, students and parents, undertaken last month, it tells us some interesting things about what people expect in the midst of the pandemic. Overall, the results are positive for the higher education sector. The…
This blog was kindly contributed by David Woolley, Director of Student and Community Engagement at Nottingham Trent University & Anand Shukla, the outgoing Chief Executive of Brightside, a social mobility charity. Gains in recent years in access and participation risk being swept away by Covid-19. A clear-headed response on where…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Mark Corver, Founder of dataHE. Preview: Moving now with a bold offer of a free postgraduate year, plus underwriting accommodation risks, for students would build confidence and could save the sector billions against the alternatives. Customers and suppliers do not always see things…
This blog was kindly contributed by a trio from the University of Warwick: Professor Nigel Driffield, Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Regional Engagement, Dr Diana Beech , Head of Government Affairs and former Policy Advisor to the last three UK Universities and…
This blog was kindly contributed by Gavin Dodsworth, Director of the University Language Centre at the University of Manchester. Gavin is writing in a personal capacity. As UK universities scenario-plan, best-case / worst-case worry and fast-track five-year online plans into a quick three months, there is one part of the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr David LeFevre, Director of the EdTech Lab at Imperial College and the founder of higher education platform company Insendi, part of Study Group. Last month a subtle warning shot was shot across the bows of universities still struggling to manage the disruption caused…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Graeme Atherton, Director of the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON). With the exception of those working on international student recruitment, no professional community in higher education was left scratching their head by the challenges of Covid-19 more than those in widening access…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood. Dennis has previously written on this years’ school exams and Ofqual, among other topics. I write this having just read an article in The Guardian about the condemnation by doctors for the ‘shroud of secrecy’ thrown by ministers and Public Health England…
This piece was kindly contributed by Dr Audrey Songhurst, former Head of Operations in Kent Innovation and Enterprise, University of Kent. Audrey was awarded a Doctorate in Education from Canterbury Christ Church University and her thesis was entitled ‘Employability through a philosophical lens – a conceptual analysis’. One of the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Richard O’Kelly, Head of Analytical Data, UCAS and Carys Fisher, Senior Policy Executive, UCAS. ‘Going away to university’ is engrained in our culture The UK’s student population is not constrained to studying at a local university, as is typically the case in the rest…