As Associate Editor at Wonkhe, Louis wrote, commissioned and edited articles, as well as the Daily and weekly email briefings. He also spoke at events, and works on other partnerships and services.
He’s passionate about education policy and innovation, having researched topics such as; the school workforce, access to HE, apprenticeships, selective schools, the impact agenda, employer mentoring, open data, education technology, careers advice, enterprise education, STEM skills and school programme evaluations.
His career includes working with Reform, The National Foundation for Educational Research, Taylor & Francis, The Careers & Enterprise Company, NAHT Edge, Pearson, the Higher Education Academy, the Teacher Training Agency, for an MP and a Minister. Louis first met Mark while editing the Blue Skies series for Pearson in 2012, and has been a fan of Wonkhe ever since.
He is also committed to volunteering, including over a decade as a school governor and chair of a federation in Hackney, and recently as vice-chair of a school in Tower Hamlets. He spent three years as Chair of Westminster Students’ Union. He studied at York, UCLA and Cambridge. Louis is an RSA Fellow, amateur photographer, “enthusiastic” sportsman, proud East London citizen and Yorkshireman (really).
36 pieces
Newest first, since October 2017 · page 1 of 2
· Policy Watch
KEF details are now open for consultation
Louis Coiffait breaks down the KEF consultation to what you really need to know.
· Analysis
Let’s go fly a kite: Teaching and learning
Top wonks from across the sector share interesting ideas on teaching and learning within UK higher education
With Camille Kandiko Howson, Mike Ratcliffe and Charles Heymann
· Comment
Techno-tweed: food sustainability and agritech at the RAU
Louis Coiffait visits the Royal Agricultural University (RAU) outside Cirencester, which is on a mission to help the agri-food sector get high-tech and global after Brexit.
· Policy Watch
How OfS will regulate access and participation
Louis Coiffait summarises how the Office for Students will regulate university access and participation in England.
· Policy Watch
KEF consultation closer
Louis Coiffait analyses the latest KEF documents, recaps what KEF and knowledge exchange even are, and poses four key questions.
· Comment
Walking and talking research impact
Louis Coiffait connects the dots at Wonkfest18 (including the sneak preview of the Universities UK-Britain Thinks research) and concludes that the sector needs to walk and talk research impact if it’s to satisfy the publ
· Comment
University of Suffolk making bright start in Ipswich
This time Louis Coiffait goes East, to visit the youthful University of Suffolk in sunny Ipswich.
· Data
The participation game
David Kernohan and Louis Coiffait rummage through the latest higher education participation data, charting a game of snakes and ladders.
With David Kernohan
· Comment
Loughborough: more than just sport
Louis Coiffait continues his university tour, this time visiting Loughborough University
· Policy Watch
MAC rains on sector’s hopes
Wonkhe’s Louis Coiffait went to the migration advisory committee (MAC) report launch, and found mixed news for the sector beneath the main disappointment.
· Comment
Derby’s anchor
Louis Coiffait continues his university tour, this time visiting the University of Derby to learn what being a civic “anchor institution” actually means.
· Policy Watch
Result! A level results day 2018
David Kernohan and Louis Coiffait attempt to digest today’s A-level results, along with all the accompanying spin.
With David Kernohan
· Comment
The University of Nottingham’s evolving civic role
Louis Coiffait continues his UK tour, this time visiting the big, green University of Nottingham, which is further developing its civic role.
· Comment
There’s an app for [insert issue here]
After listening to the minister Louis Coiffait wonders if tech will really save us?
· Policy Watch
A first look at what the 2018 TEF3 data tells us
Louis Coiffait and Arthi Nachiappan take a first look at what the TEF3 data tells us.
With Arthi Nachiappan
· Comment
Of values and value for money
Louis Coiffait of Wonkhe urges the higher education debate to focus on values as well as value for money.
· Comment
Universities’ evolving role in the ethics of data and artificial intelligence
After the Cambridge Analytica scandal and on the day of the
· Comment
Hull: a city and a university raising its head
In Hull, Louis Coiffait finds a university and a city raising its head.
· Comment
How greater capacity, coherence, and capability would improve HE’s public affairs
Louis Coiffait suggests three ways the higher education sector can improve its public affairs.
· Data
Digging beneath the gender pay gap headlines
David Kernohan and Louis Coiffait take a look at the higher education sector data behind the gender pay gap headlines.
With David Kernohan