This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Professor Max Lu, President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey. Graduation ceremonies and A-Level results are times to take stock, celebrate achievements and envisage the future. During six wonderful recent days of undergraduate graduation ceremonies at the University of Surrey,…
This blog was kindly provided by Professor Susan Lea, Vice Chancellor, University of Hull. We have been talking about the financial viability of higher education providers for some time. In 2019, headlines declared that ‘Britain may soon have a bankrupt university’ and discussion raged as to whether the Government would allow…
This blog was kindly provided by Tom Morgan, a lawyer specialising in the research and innovation sector at CMS. Under the National Security and Investment Act, which came into force earlier this year, the Government has two powers that particularly affect the research sector: The first is the power to intervene in…
This blog was contributed by Adam Wynne, Head of Policy (Higher Education) at the Russell Group. Another results day has passed and while the shadow of COVID19 still lingers there are still many positives to celebrate as we start returning to normality. With grade boundaries set somewhere between 2019 and…
This blog has been written by Dr Maggie Leggett, the Director of External Relations at Queen Mary University of London Any suggestion that Russell Group universities pay only lip service to widening access is just wrong. At Queen Mary, 92 per cent of our home undergraduate students are from state…
This piece has been written by Mary Curnock Cook, a HEPI Trustee and Chair of the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook. Much of the reporting and headlines around university admissions throughout the year, and particularly around A level results day, read as if they…
Josh Freeman is a graduate in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the London School of Economics and has recently completed the Teach First programme teaching Politics. He is currently undertaking an internship at HEPI. There are three weeks to go in a Conservative leadership contest that has offered up bold…
Rob Cuthbert is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of the West of England and Managing Partner of the Practical Academics consultancy. He is the author of the 2020 HEPI blog, ‘A-Levels 2020: What students and parents need to know’. You can find Rob on Twitter @RobCuthbert. We expect…
This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Jonathan Woodhead, Policy Adviser at Birkbeck, University of London. He writes here in his capacity as a member of the London Higher Policy Network – a group bringing together policy leads from over 40 London universities and higher education institutions. You can…
This blog was kindly provided by Mike Boxall (@MikeBoxall1), higher education adviser to PA Consulting. Mike is also a member of the Steering Group for the Universities and Regions Forum established by City-REDI at the University of Birmingham. Mike writes here in a personal capacity. Despite the commitment of many universities…