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].
HEPI has probably published more critiques of the new Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) than any other organisation. Four of these are shown in the slide below, and there have been other pieces – such as blogs – alongside. While it is easy to criticise elements of the TEF (not least the metrics),…
This post is an extract of a speech by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, to the Institute for Fiscal Studies at the launch of their paper on education spending across the age range. This important new piece of work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on education spending fills a hole…
This guest blog responding to HEPI’s new report on BTECs as a route to higher education has been kindly provided by Rod Bristow, President, Core Markets for Pearson. A recent editorial in the Guardian noted that ‘England’s beleaguered vocational education system has been subjected to wave after wave of reform. Yet improving…
In this guest blog, Loris Raimo, a student at Trinity College, Oxford, argues we won’t achieve the ambitions in the new Industrial Strategy until we fix our education system to create more entrepreneurs. The latest Government Industrial Strategy talks about the importance of entrepreneurs and the need to identify barriers to entrepreneurship, but it is silent on…
This guest blog on the Higher Education and Research Bill has been kindly contributed by Professor Graham Galbraith, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Portsmouth. One of the central arguments for the Higher Education and Research Bill – currently at Committee Stage in the House of Lords – is that the Bill…
This guest blog has been contributed by John Wrathmell and Simon Hughes of the Open University. Choice is at the heart of the Government’s vision for higher education. Jo Johnson MP, as the Minister responsible, could not have been clearer at the Second Reading debate on the Higher Education and…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Alex Proudfoot, Chief Executive of Independent Higher Education (IHE), which is ‘the UK membership organisation and national representative body for independent providers of higher education, professional training and pathways.’ Today’s report from HEPI marks a valiant attempt to summarise the data published…
This guest blog on the Second Reading of the Higher Education and Research Bill in the House of Lords has been kindly provided by G.R.Evans. The Lords really spoke their minds on the Higher Education and Research Bill in their Second Reading debate on 6 December. Peers packed in 69…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor John Vinney, the Vice-Chancellor of Bournemouth University. The lack of attention given to teaching by universities, in contrast to research, is one of the reasons for the introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). While most people working in the sector…
The independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) makes forecasts for future student numbers because of the knock-on consequences for public expenditure. I have pointed out the apparent pessimism in their forecasts more than once before – see here and here – and have also visited them to discuss their figures. We…