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A guest blog kindly contributed by Jonathan Woodhead, Policy Adviser at Birkbeck, University of London The launch of Onward’s contribution to the higher education debate today with their report A Question of Degree is certainly an interesting one. While I personally look forward to reading more of Onward’s work in…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Professor Jo Price, Vice-Chancellor at the Royal Agricultural University. During his session at the annual Oxford Farming Conference (OFC) on January 2nd 2019, Michael Gove mentioned that Agriculture should be considered as a STEM subject. This will be music to the ears of anyone…
HEPI had its busiest ever year in 2018 with, for example, a record number of hits on this website – double the number we received just a couple of years ago. So it seems a good moment to take stock of some of our output over the past year. The…
This blog is written by Giles Carden, Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Projects, Lancaster University. It originally appeared as a case study in HEPI’s report Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ by David Maguire and David Morris. Lancaster University has embodied the principles of the ‘sticky campus’ and…
This blog is written by Paresh Shah, Research Manager, London Higher. It originally appeared as a case study in HEPI’s report Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ by David Maguire and David Morris. During 2016/17, nearly 93,000 full-time first degree UK students were domiciled in London and remained in…
This blog is written by Miriam Amies, Engagement Coordinator, University of Manchester Students’ Union. It originally appeared as a case study in HEPI’s report Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ by David Maguire and David Morris. Since 2014 the University of Manchester Students’ Union has been running the Off-Campus…
This blog is written by Iain Martin, the former Vice-Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University. It originally appeared as a case study in HEPI’s report Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ by David Maguire and David Morris. In response to the needs of our students and the sector-wide concern about…
This blog is written by Liz Barnes, Vice-Chancellor, Staffordshire University. It originally appeared as a case study in HEPI’s report Homeward Bound: Defining, understanding and aiding ‘commuter students’ by David Maguire and David Morris. Staffordshire University has 56 per cent of full-time undergraduate students with the same home address as their…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Will Allen-Mersh from Spill Mental health is, by all accounts, having a bit of a moment. The last few UK governments have consistently upped investment and support in the area. A raft of celebrities – from Stephen Fry to J.K. Rowling – have spoken…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Mary Curnock Cook – follow her on Twitter at @MaryCurnockCook. It was in the Browne Report in 2010. The Browne team recognised that the government would need some kind of mechanism for controlling its exposure on student finance and proposed that a UCAS-tariff…