The lifelong learning buffet needs nutritional oversight
Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal
Reskilling may help workers feed their families – but a plateful of modules may not add up to a square educational meal
Drawing on my piece for HEPI, I explain why the National Student Survey shouldn’t change and why – and how – it should.
Will emergency measures prove to have been the key to fairer admissions, based on potential more than performance?
Data presented by UCAS’s Chief Executive Clare Marchant shows starkly the correlation between clearing and drop-out…
The long Covid of careers: What’s the equivalent of hand-washing and mask-wearing for young people’s careers
I don’t think I agree with the idea of university as a ‘failsafe’, although I’m still not sure I understand what you intend by the word. So I’m going to use Matt Pinkett’s line: ‘Aim for whatever you want to do, and if you don’t get it, well, at least you can go to university.’ That assumes that whatever you want to do won’t be best achieved by going to uni. Obviously, university is not the best route for everything or for everyone, but for the vast majority of the best paid and most secure jobs, it is – if not a prerequisite – at least aRead More →
There is plenty of research showing a significant earnings premium on average for graduates regardless of background. Probably the most comprehensive work is the paper by the IFS ‘How English domiciled graduate earnings vary with gender, institution attended, subject and socio-economic background’. The Sutton Trust has also done many excellent studies on different aspects of this question which is actually a lot more complex than it sounds.
We don’t need a ‘no-deal’ Brexit for a disastrous for UK research with knock-on damage to industry, regions and ultimately for the national economy.