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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…
I had the pleasure at speaking at one of the excellent webinars organised by the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) the other day. Ostensibly, the event was an opportunity both to talk about HEPI’s recent publication with London Economics on the options for changing student loan features and to hear a…
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…
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…
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…
This blog was contributed by Professor Frances Corner OBE, Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London and Executive Chair of London Higher’s new Sustainability network. You can find Frances on Twitter @FCorner. In the run up to November’s postponed COP26, the conversation around climate change is gaining pace. This week sees…
This blog was authored by Jon Wakeford, Director of Sector Engagement at UPP and Chair of the UPP Foundation. It is based on the speech that Jon delivered at HEPI’s Annual Conference on 24 June, which was co-sponsored by UPP and Lloyds Bank You can find Jon on Twitter @Jon_Wakeford.…
This is a fascinating new book by the author of many fascinating books. Ranging from Plato to modern Singapore, it shows the power of the meritocratic idea. Much of it neatly captures the endless tension between aristocracy and meritocracy but also the way in which meritocracy can itself be problematic…
Today’s blog was kindly contributed by Professor Emma McCoy, Interim Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) at Imperial College London. You can find the Imperial Learning and Teaching on Twitter @Imperial_LT With the latest stage of lockdown restrictions having been lifted in May, universities’ campuses have welcomed back students who have…
This blog was authored by the Reverend Professor Philip McCormack, Principal of Spurgeon’s College – a higher education institution which teaches courses in Theology, Counselling and Leadership. The COVID pandemic has made it more necessary than ever for us to consider what skills we collectively need as a society to…