Wendy Alexander is the Vice-Principal (International) at the University of Dundee and was previously the Associate Dean of Global Business at the London Business School. She is also a former Leader of the Scottish Labour Party. You can find Wendy on Twitter @wendy_alexander. It is an irony of our times…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jo Grady, the General Secretary of the University and College Union (UCU), who responds to this week’s series of three HEPI blogs on the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Jo is on Twitter @DrJoGrady. Pension schemes and the science of their valuation can…
This blog was kindly contributed by Piers M Forster, University of Leeds and Eli Mitchell-Larson, University of Oxford. This blog builds on a COP26 UK University Network Briefing: How can carbon offsetting help UK further and higher education institutions achieve net zero emissions? The Briefing was authored by a mix…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Mary Bishop, MJB Consulting (Former Director of Learning ACCA Global, Visiting Chair Staffordshire University). You can find Mary on Twitter @mary2bishop . If you would like to reach out to Mary, you can find her on LinkedIn here. 2021 started with a whirlwhind…
This blog was kindly contributed by Gwen Morris, a qualified English teacher and ambassador for Teach First. She is currently studying an MA in Publishing at UCL. You can find Gwen on Twitter @MGwenMorris. As a Teach First participant, most of my training focused on addressing the attainment gap that…
This blog was kindly contributed by Nick Barker. Nick works for Warwick University doing schools outreach work. He is based in a primary school serving an area of severe social deprivation and is a member of the University’s Strategy Group. ‘I’m stuck’, said Karen, looking up at me with an…
This blog was kindly contributed by Abhishek Nakhate, Founder and CEO of Zilter & Zoom Abroad, and Bill Rammell, Former Minister of State for Higher Education and a former Vice-Chancellor. The most successful universities in terms of student recruitment devote time, money and staff to really know and understand potential…
This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. M .Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). You can find Andrew on Twitter @andrewboggs and OxCHEPs @oxcheps . Of the dozen or so documents relating to higher education published by the Department for Education on 21…
This blog has been written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the body representing over forty London-based universities and higher education colleges. She was previously Policy Adviser to the last three Universities Ministers. You can find Diana on Twitter @dianajbeech . Buried among the flurry…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, who is on Twitter @noookophile. Official consultations are important documents, if only to allow the issuer to claim that ‘we consulted widely’. Whether or not the issuer is influenced by any responses is another matter, and those responses are of course heavily…