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This guest blog has been kindly contributed by Professor Rama Thirunamachandran, Chair of MillionPlus, The Association for Modern Universities, and the Vice-Chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University. There is no area of our lives that has not in some way been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the education sector,…
This blog is the latest in a series by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the 2020 results round for HEPI. As a result of the public uproar following the ‘adjusting down’ of around 124,000 centre assessment grades (CAGs) – about one-quarter of all grades submitted – Scotland’s Education Secretary, John Swinney, has now binned ‘statistical standardisation”…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Amy Low, who is Service Delivery Director of AbilityNet, which supports people of any age, living with any disability or impairment to use technology to achieve their goals at home, at work and in education. The Disabled Students’ Commission has not…
How many people attend higher education has been a lively political issue for decades – the topic of many official white papers and green papers, ministerial and prime ministerial speeches as well as HEPI publications. In general, politicians in power have tended to support expansion – for example: in the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management, University of the West of England. You can find Rob on Twitter @RobCuthbert. As A-Level results day (Thursday, 13 August) looms, there is still widespread misunderstanding among students and parents about how grades have been determined.…
This piece is the latest in a series by Dennis Sherwood, who has been tracking the developments around Ofqual and public exams this year. You can find Dennis on Twitter @noookophile . On Tuesday, 11 August at 10am, HEPI is hosting an ‘In Conversation’ session with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive…
This blog was kindly contributed by Ben Jordan, Head of Policy at UCAS. Next week on Tuesday 11th at 10am, Nick Hillman and Rachel Hewitt are leading an ‘In Conversation’ session with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS. Places are limited: sign up here. In many ways, the 2020 entry…
This blog was kindly contributed by a team of researchers at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. They are Weiyan Xiong, Assistant Professor (Research), Jin Jiang, Assistant Professor (Research), and Ka Ho Mok, Chair Professor of Comparative Policy. Online Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, online…
'This shows that a trade-off between local, national and international is unnecessary and even counterproductive. Much civic activity is complementary to national and international ambitions.'
This blog was written by Bethan Cornell, author of PhD Life: The UK student experience and PhD students and their careers. I have often been asked whether or not the ‘leaky pipeline’, which describes the large numbers of PhD students and early career researchers who leave academia, is really a…