SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2024

Dennis Sherwood , an independent analyst and consultant, interpreted Ofqual’s measurements of grade reliability as a consequence of what he termed ‘fuzziness’. Those, probably mostly outside the UK, who are unfamiliar with the story might like to read this explainer from Private Eye before reading this editorial. Or just Google it.

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HEPI

APRIL 15, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dennis Sherwood, the author of Missing the Mark – Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust , (Canbury Press, 2022). If you’re involved in admissions, grades are important to you too. People’ embraces students, parents, admissions officers.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2023

UCAS recently blogged for HEPI on the changes they are proposing to make to higher education applications in future. Here, Sarra Jenkins, a Politics teacher in Loughborough who is behind the successful @LGS_Politics twitter account, responds to UCAS’s proposals by looking at what they might mean for those on the cusp of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Practical judgments about what leads to human flourishing form the overlapping part of the Venn diagram of those two schools of thought. Barshay’s piece summarizes a larger study of admissions at an unnamed selective private university in the Northeast. Occupational hazard.

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HEPI

AUGUST 29, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by Martin Blakey, CEO of Unipol, a student housing charity. On current admission trends, this would mean an increase of 40,000 students in England by 2025 (and a fall of around 18,000 students in Scotland). For this segment, widespread cutbacks in admissions followed in summer 2022.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

Blogs How to uncover hidden threats in past enrollment trends What most institutions miss As we approach the beginning of a new academic year, campus leaders are already taking stock of their undergraduate enrollments. However, since 2016, demographics have actually grown.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma There are harsh truths—lies and secrets, guilt and shame—that we generally don’t want to admit. Some harsh truths are actually clichés. The problem is, rather, that other priorities eclipse what campuses claim to value. It’s not what institutions say that matters.

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