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The HEPI Blog aims to make brief, incisive contributions to the higher education policy landscape. It is circulated to our subscribers and published online. We welcome guest submissions, which should follow our Instructions for Blog Authors. Submissions should be sent to our Blog Editor, Josh Freeman, at [email protected].

  • How radical is the educational offer of the London Interdisciplinary School?

    6 November 2020 by Paul Ashwin

    This blog was kindly contributed by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education at Lancaster University and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education. Paul is on Twitter @paulashwin I have recently published a book in which I offer a manifesto for transforming university education. I was therefore fascinated…

  • Andrew Connors: The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19

    5 November 2020 by Andrew Connors

    This is a written transcript of Andrew Connors’s (Head of Higher Education, Lloyds Bank) introductory remarks at the recent HEPI / Lloyds webinar on ‘The long-term impact of COVID-19 on the higher education sector’. You can now watch the full recording here. I wrote here back in April that the…

  • Blended learning: a long-term shift in pedagogy

    4 November 2020 by Stephanie Marshall

    This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Stephanie Marshall, Vice Principal (Education)Queen Mary University of London. Blended learning is nothing new. It was a pedagogic approach used as early as 1436, when Gutenburg invented his printing press, facilitating inexpensive mass-production of books. Subsequently, rather than the pedagogue reading from a…

  • Let’s put the student voice at the heart of our International Education Strategy

    3 November 2020 by Anne-Marie Graham

    This blog was kindly contributed by Anne-Marie Graham, Chief Executive at UKCISA.   When the International Education Strategy was first published last year it set a clear intention and commitment to the sector that international education was firmly on the Government’s agenda – with a specific target to increase international…

  • White under-achievement in education

    2 November 2020 by Mary Curnock Cook

    Mary Curnock Cook casts an eye over the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into Left Behind White Pupils from Disadvantaged Backgrounds. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook Earlier this month, Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow and Chair of the Education Select Committee, launched an inquiry into Left Behind White Pupils…

  • How COVID has created a new imperative for universities to work with edtech

    27 October 2020 by Mary Curnock Cook & Jack Hylands

    In this blog Mary Curnock Cook, Network Chair at Emerge Education, and Jack Hylands, Co-Founder/CEO of FourthRev, review the role of edtech and emerging opportunities for universities in the COVID era. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook . Recent conversations with dozens of university leaders and faculty have confirmed…