Education is one of our most successful export sectors. It is our fifth largest services sector and the second biggest contributor to our net balance of payments. So why does the Office for National Statistics (ONS) fail to measure and monitor the UK’s educational exports. More...
16 avril 2017
Why does the Office for National Statistics fail to measure the UK’s educational exports?
International Women’s Day: Tales of Success or Survival?
Today, on International Women’s Day, it is only right that we celebrate the successes of women in higher education. After all, we live in a world where the majority of students at our universities are women. This is quite a change from the last century: the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, for example, did not formally award degrees to women until 1920 and 1947 respectively. More...
Working with the media…
Our new paper by Richard Garner, available on the Publications page, is chock full of anecdotes illustrating his arguments about the best ways for higher education institutions to engage with the media. More...
The TEF: an idiot’s guide to the arguments for and against
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. More...
Education spending across the age range
This important new piece of work from the Institute for Fiscal Studies on education spending fills a hole by providing a robust and comparable time series. More...
Rising to the challenge
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 the quality of technical education has eluded governments of all colours.’ More...
What more might universities do to promote entrepreneurship?
The latest Government Industrial Strategy talks about the importance of entrepreneurs and the need to identify barriers to entrepreneurship, but it is silent on the actions our universities need to take to help overcome them. More...
Populists and Universities, Round Two
By . There is a lot of talk these days about populists and universities. There are all kinds of thinkpieces about “universities and Trump”, “universities and Brexit”, etc. Just the other day, Sir Peter Scott delivered a lecture on “Populism and the Academy” at OISE, saying that over the past twelve months it has sometimes felt like universities were “on the wrong side of history”. More...
Evaluating Teaching
By . The Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) put out an interesting little piece the week before last summarizing the problems with student evaluations of teaching. It contains reasonable summary of the literature and I thought some of it would be worth looking at here. More...
CEU and Academic Freedom
By . Let me tell you about this university in Europe. It’s a small, private institution in which specializes in the humanities and social sciences. It’s run on western lines, and is one of the best institutions in the country for research. And now the Government is trying to shut it down, mainly because it finds the institution politically troublesome.
Think I’m talking about Central European University (CEU) in Budapest? Well, I’m not. I’m talking about the European University of Saint Petersburg (EUSP), which has had its license to operate revoked mainly because of its program of studies on gender and LGBTQ issues. And I’m kind of interested in why we focus on one and not the other. More...
