The future of exams: two fundamental principles that must be honoured
Grade inflation strikes again Now that this year’s school exam results have been declared, attention is focusing on what will happen in summer 2022 and…
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‘Systemic bias against boys’? Unexplained differences in Teacher Assessed Grades between boys and girls in this year’s A level results
This is the fourth consecutive year that I have blogged about A levels for HEPI (@HEPI_news). Last year the headline was the precipitous decline of English…
International students in the UK – perspectives put in context
The attraction of the UK as a destination for international students seeking a tertiary education has long been on the rise and this is evidenced…
The student voice and accommodation
Today’s students are powerful consumers, especially when this power is wielded as a collective. This chapter explores the impact of that collective voice on student…
Students’ voices in curriculum design
Woodrow Wilson’s assertion that ‘It is easier to move a cemetery than to change a curriculum’ is being put to the test in higher education.…
Restoring the real student voice
A recent BBC News article reported that students at the University of Oxford had voted to remove a picture of the Queen from their common…
The virtuous loop: capturing the student voice through course and module evaluation
In recent years, UK higher education providers have increasingly used surveys to capture the student voice to understand the student learning experience. They typically survey…
Disabled students: the experts we forget we need
This week we will be running a selection of chapters from our recently released report, ‘What is the student voice? Thirteen essays on how to…
Using surveys to represent the student voice and demonstrate the quality of the experience
As I write, the future of the UK National Student Survey (#NSS) is under review. Led by the Office for Students (OfS), the review and…
Students as governors: walking the tightrope and shouting into the void
Every year, hundreds of students armed with flimsy banners, branded t-shirts and several social media accounts attempt to woo their student body in a campaign…