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This blog was kindly contributed by Chris Brasnett, former Postgraduate Education Officer at the University of Bristol Students’ Union (2019-2020). Chris is completing a PhD in membrane biophysics at the University of Bristol and you can find him on Twitter @csbrasnett Increasingly, there is a question at the heart of…

The largest private sector pension scheme in the UK … A couple of years ago, I spent much of the Christmas break in a Reading Room at the British Library. I was investigating the history of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). It was more fun than it sounds. The report I wrote…

Today’s blog was written by Sander Kristel, UCAS Chief Operations Officer. You can find Sander on Twitter @SKristel1 As Halloween, Bonfire Night and Diwali all pass and the Christmas countdown starts, admissions professionals usually begin to get a feeling for how the rest for the undergraduate cycle will pan out…

This blog was kindly contributed by a team of four authors: Chris Patton is Director of McKay Patton, a Principal Advisor with Wells Advisory, and a former PVC International for Southern Cross University and University of New England Michael Wells is Founder and Managing Director of Wells Advisory, a former…

This blog was contributed by David Hawkins, Founder of ‘The University Guys’. You can find David on twitter at @UniGuyDavid. HEPI and The University Guys are hosting an event on ‘Should more UK students consider higher education in Europe?’ with university speakers from Ireland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.…

This is an extract from a speech delivered by Nick Hillman, the HEPI Director, to the GuildHE Council this morning. 1. Turf wars In the past few years, the pace of change in higher education policy has been enormous. Whether it has been driven by wider political upheaval, or new…

This blog was contributed by Dennis Sherwood who has previously written about A levels. At the Education Select Committee hearing on 2 September, Ofqual’s Chief Regulator, Dame Glenys Stacey, acknowledged that exam grades are ‘reliable to one grade either way’. Two weeks later, at the hearing on 16 September, Gavin…

This blog was kindly contributed by Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation. This article is written in a personal capacity and is not the view of the UPP Foundation.  Over the last few days, newspapers have been full of stories and insight into what the changes in No. 10…

This blog was kindly contributed by Vincenzo Raimo Chief Relationship Officer at Unilodgers & Iona Yuelu Huang, Senior Lecturer at Harper Adams University in the UK.   Enzo and Iona have been working together on the role of agents in international student recruitment for a number of years. They are…

The blog has been written by Bahram Bekhradnia, who founded HEPI in 2002 and was its Director until January 2014, since when he has been HEPI’s President. When HEPI was established 18 years ago, few might have expected it to endure so long, and with such success. We had planned…