The HEPI Blog aims to make brief, incisive contributions to the higher education policy landscape. It is circulated to our subscribers and published online. We welcome guest submissions, which should follow our Instructions for Blog Authors. Submissions should be sent to our Blog Editor, Josh Freeman, at [email protected].
This blog was written by Bethan Cornell, author of PhD Life: The UK student experience and PhD students and their careers. I have often been asked whether or not the ‘leaky pipeline’, which describes the large numbers of PhD students and early career researchers who leave academia, is really a…
This blog was kindly contributed by Phil Kwok, Co-founder of EasyA tutoring. You can find him on LinkedIn or email at [email protected]. In a previous blog post, Bethan Cornell wrote about how we can use Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) to boost support for university students during the Covid-19 Pandemic. Rather…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Amir Sharif, Associate Dean (International and Accreditations) and Professor of Circular Economy. Amir tweets as @amsharif . This blog has taken me 23 years to write. An inordinantly long time for a blog post! But in truth, it has taken me this length…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and incoming Chief Executive Officer of London Higher. You can find Diana on Twitter @dianajbeech . England’s higher education sector is no stranger to Government challenge. Over the past five…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sarah Main, Executive Director of CaSE and Professor Graeme Reid, Chair of Science and Research Policy at UCL. You can find them both on Twitter @drsarahmain and @GraemeTR . Higher education and research organisations across Europe have called for continued UK participation in EU…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the goings on at Ofqual in relation to this year’s public exam results for HEPI. This is the ninth in the series as we rapidly approach the release of the GCSE, AS and A level grades in the…
This blog was kindly contributed by David Woolley and Les Ebdon. David is Director of Student and Community Engagement at Nottingham Trent University and Les is a former Vice Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and Director of Fair Access. Both are involved with the charity Grit, Les is on…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Jason Arday, Assistant Professor in Sociology at Durham University in the Department of Sociology and Visiting Research Fellow at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion among other positions. Higher education is a battlefield and the causalities of this…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the goings on at Ofqual in relation to this year’s public exam results for HEPI. Whenever I hear that cliché, I shudder: its purpose – especially when used by a politician – is to deflect attention from a…
Today the Independent Commission on the College of the Future has published a new report ‘People, productivity and place: a new vision for colleges’. This blog contains an excerpt, authored by Lord Bob Kerslake, Chair of the Board of Governors, Sheffield Hallam University, Chair of the Civic University Commission, and…