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Monday, September 21, 2020

Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) blog post - For employers, the Social Sciences stand up to the STEM obsession

Title:
For employers, the Social Sciences stand up to the STEM obsession
 
Author:
Sharon Witherspoon
 
Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), 21 September 2020
 
From the blog post:
Universities are currently focussed on managing the challenges arising from COVID-19: reorganising how they teach, considering how to increase safety on campus and in face-to-face teaching, coping with changes in the numbers of their new UK intake as a result of the move to Centre Assessed Grades across the United Kingdom, and uncertainty about the numbers of international students who will turn up.
 
But a number of medium-term higher education policy issues are still lurking.