Rhiannon Birch is Director of Strategic Insights and Planning at the University of Derby.
3 pieces
Newest first, since July 2017
· Comment
Has Covid-19 infected university league tables?
Will league tables say anything meaningful when they rely on data collected during the pandemic? Rhiannon Birch isn’t sure.
· Comment
What value for whose money?
Rhiannon Birch, of the University of Sheffield and on behalf of HESPA, explores how useful the ‘VFM’ concept really is.
· Analysis
What did Dearing ever do for us? Twenty years of the ‘learning society’
The Dearing Inquiry, though often remembered for introducing tuition fees, did so much more than we usually remember. Rhiannon Birch looks back on this important HE anniversary.