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2 août 2018

Are degree standards the same at all universities?

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"University standards have been in the news quite a bit recently, largely as a result of so-called ‘grade inflation’. The proportion of students getting good degrees has been going up and some commentators have been accusing universities of changing their standards. Universities are supposed all to have the same standards, of course, with the external examiner system being a key component of maintaining that position. But is that really the case. More...

2 août 2018

Universities in the Age of Reform

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"University development has tended to happen in waves.  The so-called ‘post-92’ universities were created by the transformation of the polytechnics by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. A similar government decision in 1963, following the recommendations of the Robbins Report, converted the ten Colleges of Advanced Technology into universities.  Early in the nineteenth century, however, there was an even smaller but more important and more interesting wave of new institutions. More...

2 août 2018

For the future of higher education to be truly global, education must be free for all?

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"For those who do not know, HEPI is the UK’s only independent think tank and we have done a lot of work with the bodies that have come together as Advance HE and, indeed, we are already working with Advance HE – for example, on our joint Student Academic Experience Survey, which we launched last month. More...

2 août 2018

Student Reviews, Recruitment and Retention

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"Last month, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) published The Wisdom of Students: Monitoring Quality through Student Reviews. Here are two extracts from the Executive Summary. More...

2 août 2018

AGCAS survey finds educational experience and background compounds inequality gap

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"It will come as no surprise that the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) First-year Student Career Readiness Survey 2017/18 found that socio-economic background continues to be a major influence on students’ career readiness and confidence when they arrive at university. More...

2 août 2018

Moving on to pastures new…

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"For the past 18 months, I have been delighted to serve as HEPI’s first Director of Policy and Advocacy – a role which has cemented my deep-seated interest in higher education policy and instilled in me a genuine desire to contribute to the sustained success of the UK higher education sector. More...

2 août 2018

Jisc and the mental health crisis in our universities

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"The impact of mental health issues on people and their futures can be illustrated in the story of one student, a keen violinist, whose depression led her to stop playing the instrument, instead watching hours of the US reality TV show Dance Moms. More...

2 août 2018

How can we address the ‘sub-degree deficit’?

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"Work-related, vocational, technical education has become one of the key policy debates in recent years. The Augar Review is rightly making this, particularly at sub-degree level, a core part of its work. Those working with modern universities have always had a focus on this area – not least with the innovation in the 2000s of Foundation degrees – so attention to this area is welcome. More...

2 août 2018

#MeToo in higher education: the problem with the love of power

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"Let’s start by making one thing clear: academics are not special. Yes, we may have hard-won qualifications; many of us may have become experts in our respective fields; and we may indeed be thought of as eccentric compared to the rest of the population; but being ‘quirky’ and ‘different’ in this respect certainly does not mean we have a special status from everyone else and are free to operate above the law. More...

2 août 2018

Why we should all stop claiming the current student loan system will cost more than the old one

Résultat de recherche d'images pour "hepi"There is a huge appetite to know more about this: my own piece on the subject has been more widely read than anything else I have ever written. One point that particularly resonated with people (securing 1,400 retweets) was a point about the limited access civil servants and politicians have to academic output in peer-reviewed journals. More...

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