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Lee Elliot Major is Professor of Social Mobility at the University of Exeter and former CEO of the Sutton Trust. Like all statistics, university admissions data are wonderfully manipulative things. Today’s UCAS figures might lead you to conclude that universities’ social mobility efforts require just a little nudge to vanquish inequality…
This blog was kindly contributed by Clare Marchant, Chief Executive, UCAS. The onset of the festive season each year signals the start of UCAS’ End of Cycle reporting as we aim to provide the sector with relevant and accessible analysis that looks back at the undergraduate recruitment year, while also…
This blog was kindly contributed by Jenny Ann Allen, Access and Participation Funding Manager, and Kirsty Johnson, Access and Participation Manager, at the Office for Students (OfS). A new Office for Students consultation proposes a more targeted approach to higher education collaborative outreach with a greater focus on further education…
This is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman to Amazon Web Services’s (AWS) Higher Education Transformation Week. Introduction Thank you for inviting me to speak at this important event. For those of you who don’t know, the Higher Education Policy Institute or HEPI is the UK’s only think tank that…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Gary Gates, Senior Vice President (Global Business) at Pearson. ‘the economic case for studying [Higher Technical] qualifications is inarguable.‘ Gavin Williamson, September 2020 Higher Technical Education (HTE) at Levels 4 and 5 (equivalent to the first two years of an UK honours degree)…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Graham Galbraith, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. Most universities have been testing students as part of Government-led pre-Christmas mass testing. Many of us have seen a very low number of positive results. Last week, for instance, only 0.2% of the several thousand…
This blog was kindly contributed by Aaron Porter, President of the National Union of Students (NUS) in 2010/11. Aaron now has a portfolio of advisory and non-executive roles in the higher education sector. You can find Aaron on Twitter @AaronPorter Today marks the 10-year anniversary of the vote in the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Kathy Childs. Kathy did her MSc in Education, Leadership and Management at the University of East Anglia. Widening participation was a challenge already facing higher education institutions. Yet with the impact of COVID-19 this challenge has become even greater, particularly when considering the most…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Frances Corner OBE, Warden of Goldsmiths, University of London. You can find Frances on Twitter @FCorner Later this week, HEPI will be publishing our first ever report on climate change. Sign up at the bottom of the page to receive the report the…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Martin Blakey, who is the Chief Executive of Unipol Student Homes and the co-author of the recent HEPI report ‘Student Accommodation: The Facts‘ (HEPI Analytical Report 2, August 2020). He compiles the Accommodation Costs Survey, which has been running since 1967,…