With the polls opening in just over 24 hours, we saw it fit to draw together all our content from the last six weeks related to the race for No. 10. More...The internet is awash with descriptions of Gen Z, the generation to which I belong and the generation with the highest participation in higher education. Of course, no generation is a homogenous group but there are generalised traits which are interesting to examine from a student welfare perspective. I have pulled out three:Like many people settling into a new job, I have been spending the past few weeks getting to grips with my new role: what it means, why it is important and how it fits into existing organisational structures. More...Having covered the manifesto commitments of the Conservative Party, the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats previously, we decided to the same for the smaller and non UK-wide parties. More...Universities and other related organisations now collect huge amounts of data on students: everything from detailed information about their finances to their gender identity. However, this is not a trend limited to universities. We are all sharing personal data each day with a wide range of sources and receiving targeting advertising based on our browsing history. Discussions of big data, open data and whether data are or are not the new oil have become commonplace. The power of data has never been more in focus. More...Plans to reduce journey times between Oxford and Cambridge by 40 minutes via the creation of a new Expressway between the M40 at Oxford and the M1 at Milton Keynes are currently being developed, with passionate individuals on both sides of the debate on whether it will help or hinder the surrounding areas. More...Two years ago, I wrote about the apparent inability of academics – not least political studies experts – to predict election results: in a Political Studies Association survey in 2016, almost 9 out of 10 predicted a Remain victory. More...The august Office for Budget Responsibility is crucial to economic forecasting and limiting economic shocks by providing independent oversight of economic decisions. The importance of its role in policy in modern Britain is hard to exaggerate. More...The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on access to higher education which shows that, at the current rate of progress, it will take 96 years to hit the Office for Students’s targets for access to highly-selective universities. More...The Higher Education Policy Institute has published new research about students’ views on data security, Students or data subjects? What students think about university data security. The survey of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students, undertaken for HEPI and Tribal, who have sponsored the report, by the polling company YouthSight, shows:/https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
