11+ hour, 46+ min ago   (163+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor Faten Ghosn and Professor Silke Paulmann, both of the University of Essex. Britain’s debate about universities has become strangely one-sided. We scrutinise the supply of graduate skills – what universities teach, whether degrees pay,…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (197+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Lucy Haire, Director of Sector Engagement at UPP, writing in a personal capacity. I’ve recorded this simply as a reflection of how I experienced the application process as a parent and trusted confidante to…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (315+ words) This blog is kindly authored by Dr Fatema S. Alhalwachi, Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck, University of London. Twitter/X: @dr_falhalwachi That’s a substantive claim, not a stylistic one. The Equality Act 2010 protects equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes. If ‘equity’ means allocating resources…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (226+ words) Professional and support staff make up the majority of the UK higher education workforce, but their contribution can too easily be overlooked. New research warns that universities risk undermining their own resilience by cutting investment in the people, skills and…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (745+ words) Universities are cutting the skills they need most, then paying to rebuild them. Universities are cutting the skills and capabilities they need most, only to pay to rebuild them later, according to new research into the professional and support staff…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (109+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Dr Chelle Oldham, The Open University & University of Glasgow, University Academic Integrity Co-Lead. None of this requires new policy. It requires us to stop treating compassion and rigour as a trade-off and to build…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (841+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Dr Robin Webber-Jones, The Bedford College Group and Alistair Lomax, Arc Universities Group. If Andy Burnham is right that England needs ‘growth in every postcode’, then our skills system must be capable of delivering…...

2+ week, 25+ min ago   (246+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Professor James Miller FRSE, Co-Commissioner of the Futures Framework. Public policy rarely suffers from a shortage of opinions. What is often missing is a shared understanding of the evidence. In itself, that collaboration is…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (687+ words) This blog was kindly authored by Paul Gratrick, Head of Operations, Student Experience at University of Liverpool. Debt was rarely absent from my participants’ thinking, but it was often kept at the ‘back of mind’. This was not the same…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (745+ words) Dr Michelle Morgan, Dean of Students, University of East London, Debbie Holley, Emeritus Professor, Bournemouth University and Dr Thandwie Gilder, Researcher, Advance HE. When COVID-19 resulted in the UK entering lockdown in March 2020, it marked the start of a pandemic…...