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Debra Humphris is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Brighton and was one of the Commissioners on the UKRI-Research England funded TALENT Commission, a national policy commission delivering strategic insight into the future of the UK’s technical talent. Collaboration isn’t always easy in a competitive sector. But in the current higher education and…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor in Comparative Russian and East European Culture, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL. Dr Blacker is on Twitter @BlackerUilleam. From the first days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it has been heartening to see the global community of scholars…
Dr Alexander Stewart is Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews. Talk of political polarisation has become so commonplace it can seem like a nebulous, catchall term for anything bad or contentious. But for researchers, polarisation is something quite specific. High levels…
This guest blog was kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the representative body for the UK’s largest regional higher education powerhouse in London. Diana was previously Policy Adviser to the last three Universities Ministers, and you can find her on Twitter at @dianajbeech. The…
The first in this weekly series of blogs on the issue of employability was written by Saskia Loer Hansen, Interim Vice Chancellor, and Professor Kathy Daniels, Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor, of Aston University. Proposals recently put forward by the Office for Students suggest minimum requirements that universities should meet to deliver positive outcomes…
HEPI has today published a new report on illegal drug use among students. Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director: Four years ago, back in 2018, HEPI collaborated with YouthSight and the University of Buckingham on a small but representative poll of students on their drug use. We found: The results were very…
This blog was contributed by Professor Graeme Atherton, Director National Education Opportunities Network (NEON) and Head of Centre for Inequality and Levelling Up (CILUP), University of West London. UCAS’s recent end-of-cycle report showed that the number of students going to higher education from the country’s lowest-participation neighbourhoods has increased by more…
This blog was contributed by David Woolley, Director of Student and Community Engagement, and Kathy Charles, Executive Dean of Learning and Teaching at Nottingham Trent University. The latest UCAS application figures confirm a trend that has been increasingly apparent in recent years. Despite everything, the demand for higher education, especially amongst…
Peter Scott is Commissioner for Fair Access in Scotland and Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at the UCL Institute of Education, as well as a former HEPI Trustee. Minimum entry requirements in Scotland and minimum eligibility requirements, now being consulted on in England, share an acronym – MERs –…
This blog was contributed by James Ransom, Head of Research at NCEE and a doctoral candidate at UCL Institute of Education. In a new report on entrepreneurial leadership, to be released on 15 March 2022 by the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), one survey respondent stated: Some just want…