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 kindly contributed by Alex Blower who, having worked in university outreach teams since 2012, began his doctoral research at the University of Wolverhampton in 2016. Located in the West Midlands, his study explores the formation of white working-class boys’ expectations for their future in education and work.…
This blog was written by former HEPI intern and author of HEPI Report 123 ‘A Languages crisis?’, Megan Bowler. Megan is in her third year at the University of Oxford and has previously blogged for HEPI on topics from the gender divide in languages study to learning languages one at…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. Dennis has produced much of HEPI’s past output about A-Levels, including 1 school grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? and Trusting teachers is the best way to deliver this years’ exam results – and those in future…
This guest blog has kindly been contributed by Luke Cavanaugh, undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. Covid-19 will confront the British higher education system with as large an economic and structural challenge as it has ever seen, but its students must not bear the brunt of the financial consequences. A…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Mary Curnock Cook, who is a member of HEPI’s Advisory Board, Chair of Council at the Dyson Institute, Chair of Trustees of the Access Project, a Council member at the Open University and a non-exec Director at the Student Loans…
This guest blog has been provided by Dr Gary Gates, Senior Vice President of Pearson – UK Higher Education and Pearson VUE. Pearson is the world’s learning company providing content, assessment and digital online services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We need our universities to be…
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…