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 guest blog has been kindly contributed by Andrew Connors, Head of Higher Education at Lloyds Banking Group. It does not seem very long ago that those involved in the higher education sector talked about the perfect storm. The colliding forces were a consistent decline in the number of 18-year-olds in…
This blog by Tristram Hooley, Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Student Employers and Professor of Career Education at the University of Derby, considers the implications of Covid-19 for graduate employment. Covid-19 has had a profound impact on all sectors, with higher education feeling its share of the pain.…
This blog was kindly contributed by David Hawkins, Director and Founder at the University Guys. Much of the debate in the UK about international student for the 2020 application cycle has ignored one key issue: the choices that students might make about coming in 2020 or 2021 may not take…
It has been a busy time on the HEPI blog in the past few weeks, and Covid-19 has of course been top of the agenda. With the long weekend in sight, we thought we would share with you a quick, easy and accessible list of our most recent output on…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Anne Marie Graham, the Chief Executive of UKCISA (the UK Council for International Student Affairs). In the turmoil of the Coronavirus crisis, student wellbeing remains of primary importance to UK institutions. The welfare of international students presents some specific challenges, many of which…
This blog has been contributed by Professor John Taylor, Visiting Professor at the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. He is the author of The Impact of the First World War on British Universities: Emerging from the Shadows (2018). His earlier HEPI blog on the First World War and higher…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr. Michelle Morgan, an independent consultant with an expertise in student transitions and student experience. Michelle was the creator and Principal Investigator / Project Lead for the ‘Postgraduate Experience Project’, which investigated the expectations and attitudes towards postgraduate taught STEM study across 11 UK…
This blog on the new announcement about this summer’s public exams has been written by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. He has previously produced much of HEPI’s past output on A-Levels, including 1 school exam grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? and Trusting teachers is the best way to deliver…
This blog has been contributed by someone working at a senior level in an English university, who has asked to remain anonymous. Crises can precipitate profound social change but first they expose weaknesses and speed up effects that would have happened anyway. It should be no surprise, then, that the…
A guest blog by Dr. Maria Neophytou, Director of Public Affairs at Impetus and Ben Gadsby, Policy and Research Manager at Impetus. Impetus is a charity that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in education, including by funding widening participation charities such as The Access Project and IntoUniversity.…