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This blog was kindly contributed by Sophie Cloutterbuck, Director of London Engagement, London Metropolitan University. Over the last two years, there has been a movement to draw attention to the role of universities as civic institutions. The Civic University Commission was set up by UPP Foundation in 2018. The Foundation…
This blog was kindly contributed by Gordon Marsden, Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019. You can find him on Twitter @GordonMarsden. Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Lines from the Irish writer W.B. Yeats poem,…
The author, Nick Hillman, thanks the multiple sources who provided information for this article, all of whom work closely with international students. In an increasingly competitive global higher education market, current and prospective international students are making difficult decisions about where to study, not just for next year, but potentially…
People growing up on the estate where I work are more likely to go without breakfast than progress to higher education.
This blog was written by HEPI intern and KCL Physics PhD student Bethan Cornell. Bethan is the author of the recent HEPI publication, PhD Life: The Student Experience. Earlier this week, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the Government’s UK Research and Development Roadmap, outlining how…
An anonymous senior figure in an English university responds to the end of the Office for Students’s consultation on the integrity and stability of the English higher education sector . A month after it was promised, the Office for Students (OfS) has published a response to its consultation on the…
This blog was kindly contributed in a personal capacity by Jack Ruane, MA Student in Education, Health Promotion and International Development at the UCL Institute of Education. This research has formed the basis of his dissertation and a report to be published on behalf of EAUC. Jack is not on…
This blog was kindly contributed by Ronel Lehmann founder of Finito, which helps individuals find employment, drawing on their strengths and weaknesses and matching them with employers that suit them. A few years ago, HMRC cracked down on ‘exploitative’ employers who were frowned on for using graduates as cheap labour…
Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, writes today about next week’s Festival of Higher Education, which HEPI is helping to support. The fifth Festival of Higher Education is completely free and has a dazzling line up. Universities are rightly spending much time on the immediate and short term.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Calver and Professor Malcolm Press, Manchester Metropolitan University. The recent Nesta paper from Tom Forth and Richard Jones is an excellent and accessible summary of the regional imbalances in Research & Development (R&D) funding. Their analysis of the situation should capture the imagination…