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The fifth in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by the University of Derby’s Dr Val Derbyshire (Impact Officer), Dr Laurice Fretwell (Course Director: Human Sciences), and Dr Caroline Harvey (Senior Lecturer). Introducing the Big College Challenge Prior to the formation of the College of Science and Engineering during the 2020/21…
This blog was written by Professor Nishan Canagarajah, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester and one of the commissioners of the TALENT Commission. In May, the Research Excellence Framework (REF) results will be published. The REF assesses and benchmarks the quality of the UK’s higher education research impact and outputs. …
This blog was written by Stacey Mottershaw, Lecturer and Faculty Director of Taught Student Social Mobility at Leeds University Business School and Gareth Bramley, Senior Tutor at the University of Law. Stacey and Gareth are currently in the second year of the EdD programme at the University of Sheffield. The…
This blog was written by Professor Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. Today, Universities UK (UUK) publishes the list of universities that have signed its new Code of Practice on fair admissions. As my University’s name is on the list, I want to congratulate UUK (and GuildHE) for taking…
The fourth in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Professor Catherine O’Connor, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and Experience, Leeds Trinity University. There has been an ever-sharper focus from Government that a degree should mean a transition to highly-skilled employment. This was reinforced in late November 2021 with the announcement that…
Michael Natzler, formerly HEPI’s Policy Officer, is now a consultant at Nous Group and writes in a personal capacity. You can find him on Twitter @Michael_Natzler. Last week on the blog, Michael argued that with potentially more than half a million displaced people coming to the UK in the next five years, higher…
This blog was written by Alan Roff, the author of a 2021 HEPI Debate Paper on student finance. Alan was Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire from 1996 to 2011 and is currently a member of the Council of the University of Salford. Alan is happy to…
This blog was contributed by Dr Susan Smith, Associate Dean (Education and Students) at the University of Sussex Business School. Taught postgraduate programmes are increasingly popular in the UK with 628,000 enrolments in 2020/21 and they now comprise 27 per cent of annual enrolments to higher education. The largest contributor to this…
The third in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Professor Helen Higson, Associate Dean for Accreditations at Aston University. Aston University has been known for the transformational effect that it has on students since it became a university in 1966. The University grew from an institution (the Birmingham Municipal Technical…
This blog was written by Aimee Kleinman and Tim Landucci, Education Marketing Consultants at SMRS. SMRS is a marketing agency that works with universities on strategic marketing and consultancy. Aimee and Tim are happy to discuss their research via via the following address: [email protected]. SMRS is also on Twitter @smrsltd. How have young people…