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...
16 avril 2017
16 avril 2017
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...
16 avril 2017
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...
16 avril 2017
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...
16 avril 2017
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...
16 avril 2017
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...
16 avril 2017
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...
16 avril 2017
Lessons from Mid-Century Soviet Higher Education
By . I’ve been reading Benjamin Tromly’s excellent book Making the Soviet Intelligentsia: Universities and Intellectual Life under Stalin and Khrushchev. It’s full of fascinating tidbits with surprising relevance to higher education dilemmas of the here and now. More...
16 avril 2017
Student/Graduate Survey Data
By . Back about 15 years ago, the relevant technology for email surveys became sufficiently cheap and ubiquitous that everyone started using them. I mean, everyone. So what has happened over the last decade and a half has been a proliferation of surveys and with it – surprise, surprise – a steady decline in survey response rates. We know that these low-participation surveys (nearly all are below 50%, and most are below 35%) are reliable, in the sense that they give us similar results year after year. But we have no idea whether they are accurate, because we have no way of dealing with response bias. More...
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