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There is a fairly clear consensus in higher education that we have a lot of work to do to tackle racial inequality. Students from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups (a controversial classification in its own right) have poorer experiences at university than White students. Numbers of Black academics are…

Since the House of Commons agreed to an election on 12 December, there has been lots of interest in the student vote. Nonsense Lots of the chatter has been nonsensical. For example, people who used to claim that the newish individual electoral registration system would lead to lots of students…

"The very same universities that oppose unpaid work often rely on unpaid student reps themselves."

There is a lot of nonsense talked about the voting power of students. HEPI has been tracking students’ political views and their potential electoral power closely since before the last-but-one general election. Here are some of the things we have learnt. There are some seats where students are thought to…

Fatima’s is a remarkable story, one of lucky escapes and pure determination that has taken her from her home country Syria to a refugee camp in Jordan and then to Greece in search of a safe haven before coming to the UK. Life here was hard. I have experienced stigma…

It used to be thought the modern age would herald meals in the form of small pills, supersonic travel and fewer working hours. It hasn’t turned out like that. Instead, we rather like slow food. We tend to prefer cheap to super-fast travel. More income has often proved more desirable…

This blog was kindly contributed by Ian Anderson, Enterprise Architect at Ellucian. This morning (Friday 18th October), the Sky News Channel’s Brexit Countdown clock informs me that there are 13 days, 13 hours and 48 mins until B-Day, while scrolling tickertape advises that the DUP won’t support the latest ‘new’ deal and at some point soon it would appear we are…

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser at the University of Portsmouth. Last month’s Department for Education guidance to the Office for Students commands the attention of anyone in the Higher Education sector but, for those of us drawn to the absurd, Gavin Williamson’s injunction…

This guest blog was kindly contributed by Malachy Ó Néill, Provost of Ulster’s Magee campus and widely recognised for his excellence in both teaching and research. Ulster University’s Magee campus, located in the UK’s most western and historic walled city of Derry~Londonderry, has its origins in 1865 with the inception…

This blog was kindly contributed by Laura Burley, Apprenticeships Ambassador at The Open University. For those universities that have taken the strategic decision to support the apprenticeship agenda in England, there is much to get to grips with: the development of new practice-based programmes: Ofsted for higher apprenticeships; new agencies;…