By Inge Ignatia de Waard. One of the highlights for Professional eLearning is coming up next month. On Tuesday 20 June 2017, Mathias Vermeulen (CEO of Winston Wolfe) organizes the Belgian LearningTechDay an annual event that always seems to trigger multiple ideas. More...
In a new report for the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Mary Curnock Cook, the former Chief Executive of UCAS, says the Government must address six big gaps in technical education policy to raise skills and productivity. More...
The 2017 Student Academic Experience Survey, published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) reveals:
Over 14,000 full-time undergraduates took part in the survey this year. More...
The first major survey of its kind, Reality Check: A report on university applicants’ attitudes and perceptions, produced by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Unite Students, shows a significant gap between what university applicants think higher education is like and the realities of student life. More...
The UK-wide HEPI / HEA Survey was first undertaken in 2006. This year’s results are challenging, showing students have:
There are lots of positive findings too. More...
HEPI Policy Note 1, Misunderstanding Technical and Professional Education: Six Category Mistakes, considers six areas. More...
Since 2006, HEPI has run the Student Academic Experience Survey, generally in conjunction with the Higher Education Academy. This shows a big gap between students’ prior expectations and their time in higher education. It also shows the degree to which prior expectations are met explains students’ perceptions of value for money and other key factors. More...
In this hard-hitting paper, Tim Blackman, a serving Vice-Chancellor, calls for a much less hierarchical higher education sector.
He shows how this will benefit students, the quality of learning and social mobility and, most importantly, he shows how to get there. More...
The paper’s recommendations include:
measures to ‘desegregate’ and diversify universities, including quotas for the proportion of student places that can be subject to academic selection; targets for universities to re-balance their skewed social class intakes, driven by levies on the most selective universities; and a funding system that reflects the benefits of higher education to both the individual student and wider society. More...
Now that we are in the week of the general election, we could be just days away from a new Universities and Science Minister – the third in three years. More...
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