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This blog, the latest in our series about Covid-19, was kindly contributed by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University, and Natalie Day, Head of Policy and Strategy at Sheffield Hallam University, authors of HEPI Report 125 Making Universities Matter: How higher education can help to heal a divided…
This week’s row over universities shifting applicants from conditional to unconditional offers is a distraction from the bigger and more important picture being painted by the current Covid-19 crisis, writes Nick Hillman. There is a consensus across Government, the Office for Students and many commentators that recent offer-making behaviour by…
This blog is an edited transcript of a speech delivered by Monica Chadha, Vice Chair of Council, Queen Mary University of London. This is the second of two blogs we are running documenting the speeches delivered at the HEPI / Advance HE Parliamentary Breakfast Seminar ‘Challenging the Status Quo –…
This blog is an edited transcript of a speech delivered by Chris Sayers, Chairman of the University Committee of Chairs and Chair at Northumbria University. This is the first of two speeches we will run on the blog originally delivered at the HEPI / Advance HE Parliamentary Breakfast Seminar, ‘Challenging…
Last week saw Gavin Williamson announce the closure of schools and colleges, along with the cancellation of primary school tests (SATS), GCSEs and A levels. Higher education institutions have followed suit, with all universities now suspending face-to-face teaching. The Secretary of State’s speech also included the cancellation of school performance tables for…
This blog was kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook, a HEPI Advisory Board member and Chair of Council for the Dyson Institute. I often reflect that today’s youngsters are courageous and articulate and funny and breathtakingly clever in ways that my generation just wasn’t. Perhaps the distance in years has…
This blog has been written for HEPI by Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham. Universities will be changed forever by the Coronavirus crisis and its aftermath. A welcome harbinger has been a greater sense of unity and collective mission among universities than at any point in recent – sometimes…
This blog on yesterday’s 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? I’ve just been reading about the proposed arrangements for…
If you find yourself with a little more time to read over the next few weeks while social distancing or self-isolating, then – after you have read and re-read HEPI’s recent output – may I recommend The Professor and the Parson by Adam Sisman? It is a biography of Robert Peters, who spent…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Paul Wellings, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong (and a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lancaster) in response to the latest HEPI, report After demand driven funding in Australia: Competing models for distributing student places to universities, courses and students by Professor…