17 pieces
Newest first, since September 2014
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Creative arts graduates aren’t the problem – they’re the subsidy
Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren’t a sign of poor courses – they’re a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce
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More engineering applications don’t make for more engineers
Johnny Rich won’t be celebrating a 14 per cent increase in engineering applications in the latest UCAS data – because sector capacity hasn’t risen to match
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What can academics do to save the planet?
What role can academic staff play in averting a climate catastrophe? Johnny Rich explains how the Engineering Professors’ Council is supporting work on a sustainable future
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Why is the government wrecking its own reforms to technical education?
As demand for “gold standard” T levels atrophies in the face of news that they’ll be replaced, Johnny Rich laments an obsession with killing off BTECs.
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Is it time for Oxbridge interviews for all?
Johnny Rich has a look at the latest higher education policy idea to emerge from Liz Truss’ campaign
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Can OfS help level up the country?
Is OfS the right regulator for the times we live in – and if not, how could it better serve students? Andy Westwood, Paul Ashwin, Syahadah Shahril, Johnny Rich and Joy Elliott-Bowman have ideas
With Andy Westwood, Paul Ashwin, Syahadah Shahril and Joy Elliott-Bowman
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Minimum entry requirements would prevent levelling up
Blanket minimum entry requirements for higher education would close doors to opportunity, argues Johnny Rich
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Why put every student into the scramble of clearing?
Johnny Rich argues that Post-Qualifications Admissions is the wrong answer to the wrong question.
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Build Back Higher: Regulation fit for a different future
Johnny Rich, Dorothy Chirwa, and Paul Greatrix ask questions of the way regulation could change in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.
With Dorothy Chirwa and Paul Greatrix
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Values, not value
The Augar report talks a lot about value. Johnny Rich asks what it means by the word.
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TEF won’t sweeten my rankings rancour
Johnny Rich takes aim at the notion that university rankings – TEF included – can inform student choice.
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Rewriting the rules of the funding game
Johnny Rich, of Push and the Engineering Professors’ Council, argues that businesses should pay a levy for each graduate they employ instead of students borrowing money to pay for tuition.
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Keeping the sinking apprenticeship afloat
Johnny Rich, CEO of the Engineering Professors’ Council and of Push, explains what’s scuppered government apprenticeship policy, how to stop it from going under, and how universities can be the lifeboats.
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The antidote to university league tables?
Monolithic rankings distort our understanding of diverse forms of university excellence. Johnny Rich argues that a new league table philosophy could make rankings work more for good, rather than ill.
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Bell’s agency cocktail needs added vision
The Bell Review may have been tight on efficiencies, but it is short of a vision for how a new sector development agency could function, says Johnny Rich.
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Why TEF must measure employability not employment
Marking the report of his HEPI pamphlet ‘Employability: Degrees of Value’, Johnny Rich argues that the government is wrong to focus on measures of employment in the TEF and instead should be looking for student employabi
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Clearing up the information landscape
Information is dangerous territory for HEFCE. There’s a lot riding on getting the balance right between what students and the taxpayer have a right to expect, and the burden on universities in providing it. The 2011 Whit