It turned out this was a little risky and rash because it led to offers from people who know nothing about either higher education or the role of a think tank, which is to stimulate evidence-informed debate in the interests of spreading knowledge and improving policy. More...
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Where next for admissions: soft PQA or hard clearing?
Whenever you review something big – a school curriculum or an admissions philosophy, or an Irish border – you always have the same fundamental question. Do you decide what is right first and make the practicalities fit, or do you limit your ambitions to what will fit without too much disruption to the practicalities. More...
New data show complexities around casualisation
Last week, the first look at the annual data collected on staff at UK universities was published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). As well as the usual information on the profile of staff, new statistics are available on staff who are on zero-hour contracts and those who are hourly-paid, as opposed to salaried. More...
Students are still firmly in favour of Britain staying within the European Union but are less certain in their support
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has worked with the polling company YouthSight on a survey of attitudes towards Brexit and political parties among full-time undergraduate students. More...
Getting intense about teaching intensity: why contact hours and class sizes do matter
It was concerns of this kind that led us to use the Freedom of Information Act to collect data on both contact hours and class size. This allowed us to compare the teaching arrangements at UK universities in more detail than any study since the 1963 Robbins Report. More...
Academic LMS Market Slowdown
By Phil Hill. In one of our premium versions of the LMS Market Analysis services, targeted primarily at the investment community, we have noted since early summer (starting in June 2018) that the global LMS market appears to be slowing down for higher ed. More...
