This review was written by Daniel Dipper. Daniel is going into his third year of studying History and Politics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and is the current Oxford Union Librarian as well as Magdalen’s undergraduate president. Daniel was educated in a state comprehensive school and is the first in…
TD;LR What is the best answer to this question: why can’t institutions move from the highly regulated Approved (fee cap) category at the Office for Students to the also tightly regulated Approved category and still receive ‘Quality Related’ research funding? For many years, I’ve been screaming into the void (or so…
This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dr Liz Morrish, who is Visiting Fellow at York St John University and the co-author of HEPI’s work on staff wellbeing, which is available here and here. It is the second review of the book that we have published, with the other one available here.…
By John Cope, former ministerial adviser and board member of the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education. The recent story in the Financial Times that employers ‘lose more than £3.3bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds’ is the latest in a long line of gloomy stories around the Levy. We have lurched between…
This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Professor Max Lu, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey. Graduation ceremonies and A-Level results are times to take stock, celebrate achievements and envisage the future. During six wonderful recent days of undergraduate graduation ceremonies at the University of Surrey,…
Steven Jones, Professor of Higher Education at the University of Manchester, is one of the nicest people I have met in our sector. As I saw first-hand when he was a staff governor of his institution, where I am a lay governor, Professor Jones knows how to deliver effective change without…
This blog was kindly provided by Professor Susan Lea, Vice Chancellor, University of Hull. We have been talking about the financial viability of higher education providers for some time. In 2019, headlines declared that ‘Britain may soon have a bankrupt university’ and discussion raged as to whether the Government would allow…
This blog was kindly provided by Tom Morgan, a lawyer specialising in the research and innovation sector at CMS. Under the National Security and Investment Act, which came into force earlier this year, the Government has two powers that particularly affect the research sector: The first is the power to intervene in…
This blog was contributed by Adam Wynne, Head of Policy (Higher Education) at the Russell Group. Another results day has passed and while the shadow of COVID19 still lingers there are still many positives to celebrate as we start returning to normality. With grade boundaries set somewhere between 2019 and…
This blog has been written by Dr Maggie Leggett, the Director of External Relations at Queen Mary University of London Any suggestion that Russell Group universities pay only lip service to widening access is just wrong. At Queen Mary, 92 per cent of our home undergraduate students are from state…