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Mary Curnock Cook
Mary Curnock Cook CBE is the incoming chair of QAHE.
16 pieces
Newest first, since December 2016
· Comment
No degrees by default? Then we need a new architecture for lifelong learning
Mary Curnock Cook argues that the three-year residential degree no longer works for enough people – and that embracing more partnership provision must be part of the solution
· Analysis
Defunding BTECs could cause HE participation to fall off a cliff
Pausing BTEC defunding is a cost-neutral decision for an incoming government. Mary Curnock Cook assesses the impact of current policy on HE participation
· Comment
The cost of learning crisis is creating new threats to students’ futures
Two years on from the report of the Student Futures Commission, rising costs are undermining efforts to build back post-Covid, warn Mary Curnock Cook and Richard Brabner
With Richard Brabner
· Comment
Manchester Metropolitan University is the first to respond to the Student Futures Commission
Student Futures Commission chair Mary Curnock Cook pays tribute to a university that has risen to the challenge of securing student futures post-pandemic
· Comment
The future isn’t what it used to be – it’s time for action to secure students’ futures post-pandemic
As the work of the Students Futures Commissions culminates with a final report, Mary Curnock Cook calls on the sector to take up the challenge and secure students’ futures
· Comment
Rebuilding diverse student communities is at the top of vice chancellors’ post-Covid agenda
University leaders shared their views on post-Covid priorities with the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission. Commission chair Mary Curnock Cook finds that “belonging” is key
· Comment
Should the Office for Students obsess over outcomes?
Amelia McLoughlan, Graham Towl, Andrew Boggs, Amatey Doku and Mary Curnock Cook continue our series on the future of OfS.
With Amelia McLoughlan, Graham Towl, Andrew Boggs and Amatey Doku
· Comment
Students need universities to prioritise inclusion and academic confidence in the years ahead
Student Futures Commission chair Mary Curnock Cook introduces its interim report offering priorities for supporting student success post-Covid 19
· Analysis
Student Futures Commission: students’ hopes beyond Covid-19
Student Futures Commission chair Mary Curnock Cook explores the findings from a new poll of students on their experiences of Covid-19 and hopes for the future.
· Comment
The UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission: what do students need to enable their success?
UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission chair Mary Curnock Cook aims to channel the best of the HE sector’s thinking on building back student success post-Covid
· Comment
Wicked problems: what should be included in the HE curriculum?
Does the curriculum deliver the right balance of knowledge and skills? And whose job is it to decide? Dave Phoenix, Gilly Salmon and Mary Curnock Cook call for fresh thinking
With David Phoenix and Gilly Salmon
· Blog
How researching post qualification admissions turned me from advocate to sceptic
Former UCAS Chief Executive Mary Curnock Cook contributed to a UCAS report on the feasibility of PQA in 2012. The experience made her less sympathetic to the idea.
· Analysis
Let’s go fly a kite: Who is HE for?
Top wonks from across the sector share ideas on who we think HE should be for
With Gilly Salmon and Neil Mackenzie
· People
Men, boys and educational attainment
Mary Curnock Cook reports back from the inaugural conference of the Men and Boy’s Coalition – which focused on male educational underachievement.
· Comment
Widening access now has a business and social imperative
A squeeze in overall demand means that there’s a new urgency behind broadening the sector’s net to include greater numbers of students from low-participation backgrounds, argues UCAS’s Mary Curnock Cook.
· Analysis
Multiple measures of inequality show there is work still to do in widening access
Mary Curnock Cook introduces this year’s UCAS End of Cycle Report and UCAS’s new tool for measuring multiple variables of disadvantage and inequality.