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This blog has been contributed by Professor John Taylor, Visiting Professor at the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. He is the author of The Impact of the First World War on British Universities: Emerging from the Shadows (2018). His earlier HEPI blog on the First World War and higher…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr. Michelle Morgan, an independent consultant with an expertise in student transitions and student experience. Michelle was the creator and Principal Investigator / Project Lead for the ‘Postgraduate Experience Project’, which investigated the expectations and attitudes towards postgraduate taught STEM study across 11 UK…
This blog on the new announcement about this summer’s public exams has been written by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. He has previously produced much of HEPI’s past output on A-Levels, including 1 school exam grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? and Trusting teachers is the best way to deliver…
This blog has been contributed by someone working at a senior level in an English university, who has asked to remain anonymous. Crises can precipitate profound social change but first they expose weaknesses and speed up effects that would have happened anyway. It should be no surprise, then, that the…
A guest blog by Dr. Maria Neophytou, Director of Public Affairs at Impetus and Ben Gadsby, Policy and Research Manager at Impetus. Impetus is a charity that supports young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to succeed in education, including by funding widening participation charities such as The Access Project and IntoUniversity.…
This blog was kindly contributed by David Hawkins, Director and Founder at The University Guys. In the midst of the current global crisis, students in their final years at secondary school will necessarily be concerned about what this disruption means for their onward progression, to university, apprenticeships or employment. It…
This blog has been contributed by the Rt Hon. Lord Willetts FRS, who was the Minister for Universities and Science between 2010 and 2014. He is now President of the Resolution Foundation and a member of the UK Research and Innovation Board. A new edition of his book The Pinch: How the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Eluned Parrott, Director of the Unite Foundation, the UK’s biggest provider of scholarships to care-leavers and estranged students. Last week Eluned wrote a fantastic blog for HEPI on Covid-19 and care-leavers. Last month the Unite Foundation launched major research by a consortium led by…
This blog, the latest in our series about Covid-19, was kindly contributed by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University, and Natalie Day, Head of Policy and Strategy at Sheffield Hallam University, authors of HEPI Report 125 Making Universities Matter: How higher education can help to heal a divided…
This week’s row over universities shifting applicants from conditional to unconditional offers is a distraction from the bigger and more important picture being painted by the current Covid-19 crisis, writes Nick Hillman. There is a consensus across Government, the Office for Students and many commentators that recent offer-making behaviour by…