SRHE

JANUARY 30, 2024

by Tim Clark All doctoral students in the UK are expected to navigate periodic, typically annual, progress reviews as part of their studies ( QAA, 2020 ). My intention for this blog is to share some learning from this work, with a more detailed recent paper reporting on the study also available here (Clark, 2023).

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Adam Shore, Director of the School of Business and Management at Liverpool John Moores University, Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee, and Board Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE).

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Higher Education Institution Education Leadership 115

HEPI

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Alex Berka, Insights Manager at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. A recent report highlighted that a large part of the UK Higher Education sector had seen a decline in enrolments from both India and Nigeria in their September 2023 intakes.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs).

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Jo Richards, Senior Insight Lead at UCAS. Universities UK issued a stark warning in December 2022 that students ‘ risk becoming the “forgotten group” in the cost of living crisis.’ Indeed, main scheme UK applications for deferred entry represented 3.4%

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HEPI

MAY 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

Open access John Sherer (North Carolina) blogged for The Scholarly Kitchen on 23 March 2023 about a recent initiative to publish open access monographs in history, reporting technical problems, author resistance but also much greater take-up/use, with about three times as many reported individual engagements as even a successful paywalled monograph.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We had the pleasure of meeting thousands of students at Freshers’ Fairs up and down the UK. Kortext colleagues attended events around the world, from Bangkok to Berlin and Rwanda to Rome, culminating in the ‘Oscars of higher education’, the THE Awards in Liverpool. Kortext Live – digital education: the future, now!’

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne Universities are in a difficult spot. Demand for higher education is high, with more and more young people seeing the value of a university education, which is obviously great news for the sector. The findings were rather sobering.

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Retention Higher Education Technology University Mission 63

HEPI

AUGUST 25, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Dr Jonathan Grant, founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. We are currently running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a series of blogs.

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Higher Education Education Further Education Model 52

HEPI

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Natalie Forster, Research Fellow in Applied Health and Social Care at Northumbria University. It draws upon research funded by the Society for Research into Higher Education , in which we explored how these communities are portrayed in widening participation research, policy and practice.

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Higher Education Institution Education Students 57

HEPI

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Nic Beech, Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University, Commissioner on the International Higher Education Commission, Chair of the UK Standing Committee for Quality Assessment and Executive Board Member of University Alliance.

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Students Computer Science Policy Higher Education 58

HEPI

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, author of Missing the Mark: Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust , published by Canbury Press. According to Ofqual’s statistics, it is true that 53,765 of the summer 2022 grades, 0.9% of the 5,967,675 grades awarded. of grades must be right.

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Schooling Higher Education Education Students 79

HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Lily Bull , Policy Manager at the Russell Group. Speak to someone working in a UK university and they will tell you there is a problem with financial resilience. The value of universities is often well-recognised by Government and goes well beyond the core roles of education and research.

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University Model Achievement Policy 52

HEPI

JULY 23, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by William Wells , the Deputy Director of Research Innovation and Impact at the University of Leicester. Many UK universities are winding down or closing innovation and skills activities which ERDF previously funded. This presents a risk and an opportunity for innovation in the UK.

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Technology Disadvantaged Allocate Leadership 52

HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. On there, you will see a new blog entry by one of your own Professors, Paul Ashwin, Head of Department here for Educational Research.

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Model Higher Education Policy Degree 134

SRHE

APRIL 25, 2023

The Committee, with a remit “to consider matters relating to industry, including the policies of His Majesty’s Government to promote industrial growth, skills and competitiveness, and to scrutinise the work of UK regulators”, published 12 questions on which it invited evidence. The concerns are not limited to people within the sector.

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Students Higher Education Advise Guidance 88

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Peter Block , head of Media Operations Management , a professional services business. Yet, of all programmes of study at a UK university, these students are not aware of their chances of completing that journey in their chosen university or department. Much has indeed changed.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There are currently 53 institutions of higher education whose TEF results are marked as “pending” on the official OfS website. These cater for over 420,000 students, or 15% of the total UK student population. It’s a reasonable assumption that many of these have been (provisionally) given “Requires Improvement” status.

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Institution Guidance Higher Education Education 53

SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

The year-long pantomime that was government in 2022 started trying to be managerial and serious, just as the true pantomime season got into full swing and TV started showing the usual repeats specials. We offer these plot summaries to help you choose what to watch. Cinderella. She realises the glass slipper thing was all cobblers.

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Higher Education Department Advise Education 60

HEPI

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Last week, HEPI published a new Policy Note on the Robbins Report and this blog is in a series we are running to mark the 60th anniversary of the Report’s publication in October 1963 – you can access them all here. The proposals of the Robbins Report on Higher Education considered the role of providers of tertiary education.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

As university staff prepare to go on strike, is it time to take another look at UK HE’s growing reliance on fixed-term and teaching-only contracts? Andrew Jenkins and Alison Wolf explore the changing composition of the workforce in UK universities. In recent decades there has been enormous growth in higher education.

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University Environment Department Allocate 54

HEPI

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This blog was kindly provided by Matt Riddle, Principal and Director of Learning Experiences, Curio. A longer version of this article first appeared on the Curio website in October 2022. Is now the perfect time to reconsider the student experience in higher education? Blended learning as the ‘new normal’.

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Learning Experience Higher Education Technology Advise 87

SRHE

OCTOBER 20, 2022

SRHE News is now 50 issues old, covering a momentous 12 years for higher education worldwide, but especially in the UK, and even more especially in England – an opportunity to reflect on what we thought and how we felt as it happened, and whether things seem different now. No 4 The English experiment ).

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Higher Education Policy Advise Education 52

SRHE

JULY 15, 2022

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. Her last day of office was 30 June 2022, fittingly coinciding with a meeting of SRHE Council, which was able to congratulate and thank her [1] for her outstanding contribution to the Society in her 18-year tenure. Helen Perkins.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Achievement Policy Advise 52

HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

So here we bring you a round up of just some of the books first published in 2022 which are worth a look. As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. Maybe not a new Robbins report but something close.

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Education Higher Education Leadership Schooling 118

HEPI

MARCH 20, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Julian Gravatt, Deputy Chief Executive (Policy, Curric ulum and Funding) at the Association of Colleges. On 30 March, HEPI will be runnin g a hybrid event with the UPP Foundation on Public Attitudes to Higher Education in England. A review that is taking quite some time.

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University Department Policy Higher Education 86

HEPI

APRIL 23, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sam Bailey-Watts of FRAH Consulting An overview The UK media outlets filled many column inches through September and early October 2022 as the scale of the student housing shortage, in some cities and towns in the UK, became apparent.

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Students Model Policy Higher Education 110

HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. For example, back then there was considerable uncertainty over many higher education policies.

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Educational Policy Policy Higher Education Education 74

HEPI

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Martin Blakey, the Chief Executive of Unipo l. This blog looks at what is actually going on. In analysing the causes, I am taking it as read that higher education professionals know accommodation shortages are a major drag on academic achievement. Rising shortages.

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HEPI

MARCH 27, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Martin Blakey, the Chief Executive of Unipol. Recent trends in admissions (from UCAS and HESA data) According to UCAS, applicants accepted by providers for full-time undergraduate study remained level in the autumn 2022 cycle.

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Students Recruitment Allocate Institution 107

HEPI

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This blog was authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. This is the first part of a blog series discussing the topic of free speech in higher education: the second and third parts will be run tomorrow and the day after. The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act became law on 11 May 2023.

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Guidance Environment Policy Advise 55

SRHE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

We invite further blogs on the topic from other institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives. We invite further blogs on the topic from other institutional, disciplinary, multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary perspectives. That seemed to have made the author feel herself a misfit.

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Arts And Sciences Higher Education Degree Disadvantaged 52

SRHE

JULY 11, 2022

First, take stock of the damage to the machinery of government, both in the Department for Education and the Office for Students. First, take stock of the damage to the machinery of government, both in the Department for Education and the Office for Students. But her timing was bad. Instead James Cleverly is the new Secretary of State.

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University Disadvantaged Higher Education Arts And Sciences 40