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Why degree apprenticeships deserve your attention

HEPI

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ellie Russell , Deputy Head of Policy at University Alliance. Degree apprenticeships. When it comes to degree apprenticeships, my colleagues and I have found that policy influencing involves a significant amount of myth-busting.

Degree

Degree Policy Higher Education Education

Where next? A new dawn for the OfS (OfS over the horizon, part II)

HEPI

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Derfel Owen ( LinkedIn ), Director of Education Services at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Ant Bagshaw , Senior Advisor at L.E.K. This is the second part of two blogs focusing on the Office for Students. The current approach is strangling degree-level apprenticeships.

Environment

Environment Degree Higher Education Institution

The pandemic and the progression plans of young people from widening participation backgrounds

SRHE

JANUARY 15, 2024

The results that this blog post reports and reflects upon are based on a recently published journal article ( Raven, 2023 ). That is [affecting] plans for where they go’ next. In addition, the teaching professionals highlighted the importance of providing young people with a more detailed understanding of higher apprenticeships.

Disadvantaged

Disadvantaged Guidance Schooling Model

?Five steps UCAS is taking to reform the undergraduate admissions process

HEPI

JANUARY 11, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Kim Eccleston, Head of Strategy and Reform – Strategy, Policy and Public Affairs, at UCA S. What are we doing? HEPI’s recent paper on reforming UCAS personal statements is here. Why are we introducing these changes?

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Advise Public Affairs Advocate Achievement

Fair Access and Participation: Sector-wide challenges need sector-wide collaboration

HEPI

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This blog was contributed by Professor Antony Moss, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University, and Chair, London Uni Connect. First, providers have been asked to develop plans to diversify pathways into and through higher education, including the development of apprenticeships.

Guidance

Guidance Higher Education Model Schooling

What could the higher education short course trial mean for the Lifelong Learning Entitlement?

HEPI

JANUARY 25, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. What did we learn about the demand for short courses? What did we learn from institutions? Developing 30-credit courses wasn’t as simple as cutting a module from an existing degree. Assess the demand for short courses.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Policy Model

Can the HE sector just carry on as it is now??

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. Before I get into the meat of my talk, let me urge you to take a look at the HEPI website to see what we do, assuming you are not already familiar with our work.

Model

Model Higher Education Policy Degree

The Next Iterations of Disruptive Innovation

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. First come the claims that too many degree programs fail to provide a payoff. According to one recent study , in over a quarter of degree programs in Massachusetts, graduates earn less than high school graduates and must work for 20 plus years to recoup their education’s cost.

Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Engineering Degree

The Lifelong Loan Entitlement: a new way to meet demand for alternative modes of higher education – By Professor Edward Peck

HEPI

MARCH 5, 2023

This guest blog has been kindl y written for HEPI by Professor Edward Peck CBE, Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham Trent University and the first official Student Support Champion. For further details, see here. However, to focus on these small numbers is to miss the point. The main objective must be viewed in context.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Degree Professional Development

Creating Robust Safeguarding Policies to Enhance the Student Experience

HEPI

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This blog, by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy Rose Stephenson, is an adapted version of a speech delivered in January 2024. If they are fit to study, what additional support can be put in place for this student? This can be quite wide-ranging, from not setting off fire alarms on purpose, to not committing acts of violence.

Policy

Policy Students Guidance Advocate

Student number caps: For the many not the few (But what if the few matter too?)

HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

In HEPI’s final blog before the Easter break, HEPI Director Nick Hillman returns to the thorny issue of student number caps, arguing they’re for the many not the few when – in this instance – it’s the few that matter more. It hasn’t gone away in 2023 but is perhaps not being considered as much as it should be.

Students

Students Policy Higher Education Educational Policy

Four cost-neutral ways to alleviate universities’ financial woes

HEPI

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Susanna Kalitowski, Head of Policy at University Alliance. This is a point University Alliance (UA) made in our Let’s Get Technical policy briefing , and why we are advocating for a more strategic approach from the next government. So, what is to be done?

University

University Higher Education Policy Advocate

Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Gordon Marsden, co-founder of Right to Learn , and Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. per cent of successful applicants for these apprenticeships in 2015/ 16. All are welcome: you can sign up here. Naomi focused on the 1.7 Women accounted to just 6.7

Disadvantaged

Disadvantaged Further Education Policy Higher Education

WEEKEND READING: Look Wot You Dun – Higher education in the run up to election ’24

HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). School’s out for summer I want to start with what is happening in higher education policy right now, in late July 2023. Only last week, we had the Government’s ‘crackdown on low-value degrees’.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Policy Degree

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Where next? A new dawn for the OfS (OfS over the horizon, part II)

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The pandemic and the progression plans of young people from widening participation backgrounds

?Five steps UCAS is taking to reform the undergraduate admissions process

Fair Access and Participation: Sector-wide challenges need sector-wide collaboration

What could the higher education short course trial mean for the Lifelong Learning Entitlement?

Can the HE sector just carry on as it is now??

The Next Iterations of Disruptive Innovation

The Lifelong Loan Entitlement: a new way to meet demand for alternative modes of higher education – By Professor Edward Peck

Creating Robust Safeguarding Policies to Enhance the Student Experience

Student number caps: For the many not the few (But what if the few matter too?)

Four cost-neutral ways to alleviate universities’ financial woes

Challenges facing women in post-study jobs, retraining and skills following the pandemic

WEEKEND READING: Look Wot You Dun – Higher education in the run up to election ’24

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