Ellie Garraway

Jan 30, 2024 | wonkhe.com | Ben Farmer |Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach |Ellie Garraway

At the next general election, now increasingly expected to take place in November 2024, a new set of voters, those who turned 18 after December 2019, will have their say in a national election for the first time. Many of these are the “Covid generation” – who finished their school years or started university, work or training in the pandemic.

Jan 28, 2024 | wonkhe.com | Sunday Blake |Jim Dickinson |Mark Leach |Ellie Garraway

When students enrol at university, they bring with them diverse experiences of prior learning, life experiences, and worries about the next step. Yet, in most cases in those early weeks, they are still much more likely to be asked whether they enjoyed Freshers and what they think about university marketing than to share insight about who they are that could shape how their institution thinks about teaching, learning, and student support.

May 5, 2023 | hepi.ac.uk | Jon Down |Ellie Garraway

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jon Down, Director of Development and Ellie Garraway, CEO, of Grit Breakthrough Programmes. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. In his recent HEPI blog, Leo Hanna outlined the dangers of students’ expectations not matching up to reality: wasted opportunities for non-continuing students, lost revenue and reputational harm to institutions.