This blog was kindly contributed by Margot James, Executive Chair of Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. She previously served as Minister of State for Digital and Creative Industries and as Minister for Small Business. I joined Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick as…
This blog was written by Lucian J. Hudson, Lead Author, Universities at the Crossroads, and past Director of Communications, University of Oxford and The Open University. In my report for Policy Exchange published in February before Coronavirus moved centre stage, I warned that the higher education sector was not yet…
This piece was kindly contributed by Charlotte Williams, a qualified organisational consultant, counsellor, trainer and clinical supervisor at Tavistock Consulting. Charlotte has over 17 years of experience in higher education and was previously head of a London University Counselling Service and has a particular interest in staff and organisational wellbeing.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Louise Nicol, Founder of the Asia Careers Group. The 2000s have seen pandemics such as SARS, global economic disruption with the financial crisis of 2008 and substantial government policy including the removal of the post-study work (PSW) visa in 2012. All three disrupted the…
In this blog, Bethan Cornell, a Physics PhD Student at King’s College London who is undertaking an internship at HEPI, explores some of the best practice by universities in continuing to deliver the wider student experience under lockdown. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, institutions have rapidly moved away…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser at the University of Portsmouth. He writes in a personal capacity. Dean has previously blogged for HEPI on free speech, HESA and student voting. On 4 May, the same day as the Government announced a support package for…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dennis Sherwood of Silver Bullet Machine, who has been tracking the state of this year’s public exams for HEPI. On Friday, Ofqual announced the key principles that will be used to ensure this year’s GCSE, AS and A level grades will…
This blog was kindly contributed by Andy Westwood, Professor of Government Practice at the University of Manchester. Andy is writing in a personal capacity and can be found at @andywwestwood on Twitter. By now we are all familiar with Sir Patrick Vallance and Professor Chris Whitty, Dr Jenny Harries and…
This guest blog responding to HEPI’s new report on postgraduates has been written in a personal capacity by Dr Diana Beech (Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick). Diana was Policy Adviser for higher education to various Ministers for Universities and Science (Sam Gyimah, Jo Johnson and Chris…
This blog was kindly contributed by Rachel Ambler, an independent researcher, Gervas Huxley, Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol, and Mike Peacey, Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities. Without warning, and almost overnight, the higher education sector has embarked on a whole-scale experiment in online learning.…