Today’s blog was kindly contributed by Professor Emma McCoy, Interim Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience) at Imperial College London. You can find the Imperial Learning and Teaching on Twitter @Imperial_LT With the latest stage of lockdown restrictions having been lifted in May, universities’ campuses have welcomed back students who have…
This blog was authored by the Reverend Professor Philip McCormack, Principal of Spurgeon’s College – a higher education institution which teaches courses in Theology, Counselling and Leadership. The COVID pandemic has made it more necessary than ever for us to consider what skills we collectively need as a society to…
Professor Sir David Melville CBE, Board Member, Policy Connect and former Vice-Chancellor, University of Kent kindly contributed this blog. University research in the UK has always remained at the forefront of invention. The success of the Oxford University – AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is testament to the ingenuity and dynamism which…
The HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey is 15 years old this year. It began on the initiative of HEPI’s founder and now President, Bahram Bekhradnia, as a way of tracking changing perceptions at a time of rising fees. Back in 2006, the year the project was born, fees were…
John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the UK Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford has kindly contributed this blog. You can reach out to John via his email, john.brennan@open.ac.uk ***LAST CHANCE TO SIGN…
This blog on last year’s results fiasco has been kindly written for HEPI by Dennis Sherwood, whose past articles for HEPI can all be found here. ***DON’T FORGET TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THIS YEAR’S HEPI ANNUAL CONFERENCE, TAKING PLACE THIS THURSDAY, WHICH IS KINDLY SPONSORED BY LLOYDS BANK AND…
This guest blog has been written by Andrew Connors, Midlands Regional Head of Large Corporates and Head of Higher Education and Charities with Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking. Andrew is among the speakers at this week’s HEPI Annual Conference, on Thursday 24 June, which Lloyds Bank and UPP are sponsoring –…
This blog was kindly contributed by Joanne Patterson UK Head of Marketing & Research at Handshake. You can find Handshake and Joanne on Twitter @JoinHandshakeUK @coxetter Understandably, for many professionals in higher education careers services, the past 15 months or so has largely been focused on staying stable and keeping…
The blog this morning was contributed by Sal Jarvis, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Education at the University of Westminster and Jon Down, Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. You can find Sal on Twitter @Saljarvis. Amid rumours of…
This blog was kindly contributed by two-time HEPI paper author and independent scholar, Dr Liz Morrish. You can find Liz on Twitter @lizmorrish. It is clear to anyone reading the press coverage this year that, during the pandemic, universities have become even more pressured places to work. As well as…