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, Rose Stephenson, at [email protected].
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor David Maguire, Chair of Jisc and interim Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dundee (as well as a member of the HEPI Advisory Board). The recent transition to online learning has been as rapid as it has been impressive. Many universities have…
This blog was kindly contributed by by Dr. Leeza Osipenko, Dr. Sultan Alotaibi, Alexandra Schuster, Dr. Bernardo Perez and Ksenya Prudyus from the London School of Economics. The team at LSE Health Policy is running The LockedDown initiative in collaboration with HealthBit collecting global experiences of university students and staff…
This new blog has been written by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the story of this year’s school exams for HEPI. Friday, 12 June was the deadline for schools to submit their ‘centre assessment grades’ and rank orders for this year’s GCSE, AS and A-level students, and over the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Paul Hayes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser, and Paul Spendlove, Graduate Outcomes Manager, at the University of Portsmouth. Earlier this year we wrote for HEPI about the unenviable challenge HESA faces in introducing its new Graduate Outcome Survey. We were worried that…
This blog was kindly contributed by five co-authors: Renata Albuquerque, Widening participation Manager (Languages & Communities), SOAS, London Sam Dunnett, Head of Widening Participation, University of Sussex Annette Hayton, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of BathColin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education at Sheffield Hallam University Anna Mountford-Zimdars, Professor…
This blog was written by current HEPI intern and KCL Physics PhD student Bethan Cornell. Bethan has written on the blog before on a range of postgraduate topics covering accommodation and climate change. In normal circumstances, universities rely on the help of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) for the smooth running…
This blog was kindly contributed by Jane Cahill, Head of English at an inner-city London school. She is a former Debate Mate Programme Director and Teach First ambassador. Higher education providers are facing unprecedented admissions challenges as a result of exam cancellations. Currently, more advantaged students are six times more…
This blog was kindly contributed by Padmore Adusei Amoah, Research Assistant Professor, and Professor Ka Ho Mok, Chair Professor, both of Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Covid-19 Pandemic and International Education Internationalisation of education is facing unprecedented challenges when the world is presently confronted with the Covid-19 pandemic. Well before the…
This guest blog was kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and former Policy Adviser to the last three Ministers of State for Universities and Science. She was also HEPI’s first Director of Policy and Advocacy. Bring back Brexit! Yes, you read…
The Student Academic Experience Survey, this year authored by Jonathan Neves (Advance HE) and Rachel Hewitt (HEPI), is such a rich resource that it may feel hard to know where to start. So here are ten points that stood out for me that I think are particularly worth exploring further.…