Title:
Higher education in 2020 and 2021
Speech by Nick Hillman to Amazon Web Services's (AWS) Higher Education Transformation Week.
Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), 15 December 2020
From the speech:
We meet at the end of the most tumultuous year in living memory, perhaps the most tumultuous year for British universities at any point in the last 85 years. The end of the year is always a good moment to take stock, but that is especially true in 2020, even though the pandemic is far from over. So I will give it a go.
I will also try to peer ahead by outlining the possible lessons from 2020 for the future. I know this is a fool’s game: if the unpredictable events of the last 12 months teach us anything, it is that forecasts have a habit of not coming true.