WEEKEND READING: Observations on the pandemic from a Schools Outreach Fellow
People growing up on the estate where I work are more likely to go without breakfast than progress to higher education.
HEPI Guest Post
Top five points for early career researchers in the UK Research and Development Roadmap
This blog was written by HEPI intern and KCL Physics PhD student Bethan Cornell. Bethan is the author of the recent HEPI publication, PhD Life: The Student Experience. Earlier this week, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the Government’s UK Research and Development Roadmap, outlining how…
Response to the Office for Students: The end of unconditional offers, but what’s the pandemic got to do with the OfS’s new power?
An anonymous senior figure in an English university responds to the end of the Office for Students’s consultation on the integrity and stability of the English higher education sector . A month after it was promised, the Office for Students (OfS) has published a response to its consultation on the…
What can the global South teach us about health promoting and sustainable higher education? Lessons from the Okanagan Charter
This blog was kindly contributed in a personal capacity by Jack Ruane, MA Student in Education, Health Promotion and International Development at the UCL Institute of Education. This research has formed the basis of his dissertation and a report to be published on behalf of EAUC. Jack is not on…
Opinion: Allow more hours on unpaid internships while still being able to claim Jobseekers’ Allowance
This blog was kindly contributed by Ronel Lehmann founder of Finito, which helps individuals find employment, drawing on their strengths and weaknesses and matching them with employers that suit them. A few years ago, HMRC cracked down on ‘exploitative’ employers who were frowned on for using graduates as cheap labour…
The regional way forward for R&D
This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Calver and Professor Malcolm Press, Manchester Metropolitan University. The recent Nesta paper from Tom Forth and Richard Jones is an excellent and accessible summary of the regional imbalances in Research & Development (R&D) funding. Their analysis of the situation should capture the imagination…
WEEKEND READING: 2020/21 – The Year of Living Nervously?
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Liz Morrish, a Visiting Fellow at York St John University and author of two HEPI reports: Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health among higher education staff (HEPI Occasional Paper 20), May 2019; and Pressure Vessels II: An update on mental health…
Why it’s time to start focusing on the wellbeing of PhD students
This guest blog was kindly written and contributed in a personal capacity by Dr Diana Beech, Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and former Policy Adviser to the last three Ministers of State for Universities and Science. She was also HEPI’s first Director of Policy and Advocacy.…
Taking the temperature: Technology’s turning point
This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire and Eileen Smith from Oracle. Today’s blog is the third this week we have posted on edtech, the first was on the student experience and the second was on e-assessment. One bright spot within the pandemic is that it has pushed information…
An earthquake is coming for universities
This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew JT George, executive coach and consultant in education and healthcare. Andrew has previously held senior positions in Brunel University London and Imperial College London. Deep underground, tectonic plates bump and grind against each other, building immense pressure. The tensions remain latent and unrecognised…