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This blog has been kindly contributed by Sir Anthony Seldon, who was the Vice-Chancellor of The University of Buckingham from 2015 until last month and was previously head at Brighton College and then Wellington College. He is one of Britain’s leading contemporary historians, educationalists, commentators and political authors. Education is a…
This blog is an edited transcript from the launch of ‘Arriving at Thriving’, a new report into the experiences of disabled students in higher education written by Megan Hector, Senior Researcher at Policy Connect. On Wednesday 7 October, Policy Connect’s Higher Education Commission published the report for our inquiry into…
This blog was kindly contributed by Phoebe Campbell, a final year Classics undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. On August 13 2020, many students in England were left devastated after opening a set of A-Level results calculated by Ofqual’s controversial algorithm. Although implemented to push back on grade inflation, this…
This blog was kindly contributed by Jenny Shaw, Student Experience Director at Unite Students. Yesterday, Saturday 10th October, was World Mental Health Day. Unite Students worked with Student Minds on a #uniteagainstloneliness student-led campaign to mark the day. As the new academic year begins under the long shadow of COVID,…
The consequences from this year’s Great Grading Disaster continue to rumble on. Many students still feel damaged as a result of the ‘internal moderation’ exercised by their schools before their ‘centre assessment grades’ were submitted, hence the petition that, although rejected by the Department for Education (DfE), will be debated…
This blog was kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, outgoing Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and former Policy Adviser to the last three Ministers for Universities Universities are complex communities. Of course, there are the students that come to learn in them and the lecturers who…
This blog was kindly contributed by Patrick Mulrenan, Helen Redd, Jane Lewis, Kelly Cooper and Heather Allison at London Metropolitan University and reflects emerging themes in research on student parents. As university students return to their studies, the focus of the news has been on the threat of students spreading…
As the pandemic has, frustratingly, made it impossible to host in-person events, HEPI has moved its events programme online. Since the pandemic began, we have: hosted a series of ‘In Conversation’ sessions with the Minister for Universities, the Shadow Minister for Universities and others; partnered with the University of Buckingham…
This blog was kindly contributed by Mia Liyanage, who recently graduated from the MSt in US History at the University of Oxford, specialising in LGBTQ history. Her thesis uncovered the presence of ‘queer euphoria’ and an intersectional queer community in the face of persecution at Harvard University in 1920. She…
This book review has been kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech – Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and incoming CEO of London Higher. Diana previously served as Policy Adviser to the last three Ministers of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation, and was HEPI’s first…