This blog was kindly contributed by Matt Sisson, Head of Membership at the British Universities Finance Directors Group (BUFDG). Universities are complex and unique organisations, with an impact that stretches beyond teaching and research on contained campuses. They have become key anchors in their local communities and regional hubs of…
This guest blog was kindly contributed by Will Woods, Principal and CEO of the Open College of the Arts, part of the University of the Creative Arts group. What does a student look like in 2019? It is a question I would like to have asked Theresa May when she…
This blog is an edited transcript of a speech delivered at the HEPI / PwC conference on the value of higher education by Felicity Mitchell, Independent Adjudicator at the Office of the Independent Adjudicator. An introduction to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator We run the student complaints scheme, reviewing…
We are delighted to host this guest blog by Jonathan Michie, the President of Kellogg College, Oxford. A new report published today calls on all universities to provide adult education and lifelong learning. Indeed, it recommends that this should become a requirement for using the protected term ‘university’. No adult education and lifelong…
By Jon Wakeford, UPP’s Group Corporate Affairs Director and Chair of the UPP Foundation Today, HEPI publishes its joint report with UPP, Somewhere to live: Why British students study away from home – and why it matters, by the historian William Whyte of St John’s College, Oxford. It makes a vital…
This blog is an edited transcript of a speech delivered by Sir Nigel Carrington, Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Arts, London at the PwC / HEPI conference on the 18th October following Professor Nigel Seaton’s speech, ‘How can institutions best account for the value they deliver?’. PwC are longstanding…
This blog was kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook who chairs the Advisory Board for the Student Room’s development project and the university pilots. Worries about students’ mental health and wellbeing are seldom far from the news and the higher education sector is taking seriously what seems to be a spiralling increase in low wellbeing and poor mental health. Now, three universities are piloting a technology-driven approach to tackling the problem. Back in…
Fatima’s is a remarkable story, one of lucky escapes and pure determination that has taken her from her home country Syria to a refugee camp in Jordan and then to Greece in search of a safe haven before coming to the UK. Life here was hard. I have experienced stigma…
This blog was kindly contributed by Ian Anderson, Enterprise Architect at Ellucian. This morning (Friday 18th October), the Sky News Channel’s Brexit Countdown clock informs me that there are 13 days, 13 hours and 48 mins until B-Day, while scrolling tickertape advises that the DUP won’t support the latest ‘new’ deal and at some point soon it would appear we are…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser at the University of Portsmouth. Last month’s Department for Education guidance to the Office for Students commands the attention of anyone in the Higher Education sector but, for those of us drawn to the absurd, Gavin Williamson’s injunction…