The HEPI Blog aims to make brief, incisive contributions to the higher education policy landscape. It is circulated to our subscribers and published online. We welcome guest submissions, which should follow our Instructions for Blog Authors. Submissions should be sent to our Blog Editor, Josh Freeman, at [email protected].
This guest blog has been 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…
Dr Joan O’ Mahony is Director of Academic Development at Bloomsbury Institute London. Previously she was Senior Advisor (Teaching and Learning) at Advance HE, and before that the Academic Lead for Student Retention at the Higher Education Academy. The purpose of any policy consultation by a regulatory body is to…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Clare Bottle Chief Executive of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA). People who work in warehousing often share amusing anecdotes about how they fell into the profession unexpectedly. But it’s no joke. More than 7 per cent of the UK’s workforce is employed in…
This guest blog has been kindly written by Sally Burtonshaw, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at London Higher – the representative body for the UK’s largest regional higher education powerhouse. You can find Sally on Twitter at @SallyBurtonshaw. As the dust begins to settle on the 699 pages of Office…
This blog was contributed by Elena Wilson, Policy Manager at the Edge Foundation. The lack of ‘policy memory’ amongst policy makers has become a key problem in English further (FE) and higher education (HE) policy making (Watson, 2011). The rapid churn in government, change in ministerial teams and the rotation…
This blog was contributed by Dr. John Cater, Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University and the immediate past Chair of the Universities UK/Guild HE Teacher Education Advisory Group. He writes here in a personal capacity. Few will remember CATE, the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. But history repeats…
The flurry of important new documents from the Office for Students will be pored over for months, particularly between now and the end of the consultation period in March 2022. Most notably, the OfS wants to assess institutions on their students’ continuation, completion and progression rates. Institutions that fall below certain thresholds…
This blog was contributed by Professor Susan Lea, University of Hull Vice Chancellor. The Government’s focus on place, tackling inequality through levelling up, boosting productivity and developing a green economy is roundly welcomed. The image of a better and brighter future for all is both reassuring and seductive. Yet, whilst…
This blog was contributed by Oliver Price, a graduate of the University of Manchester and former Research & Editorial Assistant for the Engineering Professors’ Council. Here he discusses his experience as a Foundation Year student at the University of Manchester, where he eventually graduated with First-Class Honours in Chemical Engineering.…
No one would dispute that COVID-19 has severely disrupted the education of millions of people. Our polling with Advance HE, for example, shows an unprecedented proportion of undergraduate students think they have received ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’ value for money and twice as many as usual feel their experiences have been…