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Today, the HEPI website will receive its two millionth hit since the start of 2015. It took us almost five years, from January 2015 to November 2019, to score the first million but it has taken only 20 months, or less than two years, to hit the second million. This…
This blog was kindly contributed by Peter Scott, Professor of Higher Education Studies at the UCL Institute of Education. At the level of high (low?) politics the three-centuries union of England and Scotland still endures – despite Brexit and Scotland’s enforced departure from the European Union and despite the Scottish…
This blog was kindly contributed by Helena Gillespie, Professor of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education at the University of East Anglia. You can find Helena on Twitter @helenauea @uniofeastanglia. The Office for Students have launched a review of ‘inclusive’ practice in assessment in higher education. Details are scant at…
This blog was kindly contributed by Neil Renton, Headteacher of Harrogate Grammar School, Red Kite Learning Trust and an Association of School and College Leaders member. We have all stood outside the examination hall talking about what we hoped would be in the exam and discussing what we had revised.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Monika Nangia, Director of Student and Academic Services at SOAS, University of London. When designing digital strategies, universities must recognise the importance of enabling social connections among learners. Universities can go some way to achieving this by investing in building innovative and new…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Richard Boffey, Head of AccessHE, the pan-London network driving the higher education access, success and progression agenda for underrepresented learners across the capital. You can find Richard and AccessHE on Twitter at @rgboffey and @AccessHE. Of the 24 recommendations put forward in…
This blog was kindly contributed by Jenny Shaw, Student Experience Director at Unite Students. You can find Jenny on Twitter @jennyshaw. Come with me, for a moment, back to 1998; to a fusty office somewhere in north London. From the radio in the corner, Cher is asking us if we…
This blog was kindly contributed by Mark Corver, Founder of DataHE. You can find Mark on Twitter @markcorver. Inflation in the UK has been at modest levels for thirty years. And it remains so. For May 2021 the Retail Prices Index (RPI) statistic recorded a 12-month price change of 3.3…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood who has written a wealth of articles for HEPI on A levels and Ofqual. You can find, follow and debate Dennis on Twitter @noookophile. On Friday 9 July, the Times ran an article under the headline ‘One better grade at GCSE could…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dean Machin, Head of Policy at the University of Portsmouth, who writes here in a personal capacity. Today the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill comes to the House of Commons. The sector seems split on its significance. Is it an attempt to trigger…