# Mary Curnock Cook
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mary curnock cook (born 1958) is an independent educationalist who has previously served as Chief Executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and as Director of Qualifications and Skills at the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency. She is currently a non-executive director of the Student Loans Company.
== Life ==
Cook left school at sixteen and took a job as a secretary at International Biochemicals.
The Secret Life of Students 2022
This week on the podcast there’s a bunch of highlights from our student experience conference in London. We hear results from the Student Futures Commission and research on belonging, examples of student and SU led-projects on diversity, insights from generational research and reflections from the …
Covid-19 and admissions, REF, regulation and accommodation
This week on the Wonkhe Show we start to try to make sense of the fall out from the Covid-19 crisis. We discuss admissions and student recruitment, the cancellation of the REF and the prospects for PGR students, the character of regulation required for the coming period and the major issues around …
Mind The Education Gender Gap.
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Why are schools getting an ‘F’ when it comes to educating boys? Government statistics have revealed a troubling gender gap in our educational system for decades. So why is nothing being done?
In this episode of The Proble…
Sturgeon, engagement, graduate route
This week on the podcast Nicola Sturgeon has resigned as leader of the SNP and Scotland’s First Minister - what kind of higher education legacy does she leave?
Plus student engagement with their studies may or may not have bounced back, and there’s a call to extend rather than cut the post-study w…
Educational Frontiers: The Changing Landscape of Higher Education with Mary Curnock Cook
Mary Curnock Cook, former Chief Executive of UCAS, believes that a combination of in-person and online learning should be used in the future to modernize the curriculum and create new categories of credentialing and learning. Join us as we discuss the future of work and learning, and look at how we…
Results day: is the worst of the pandemic over for students?
As A-level students receive their exam results, Cindy Yu speaks to Isabel Hardman and Mary Curnock Cook who is the former chief executive of UCAS. In a bid to curb recent grade inflation, fewer of the top results have been handed out to students who were the first year group to sit through pandemic…
Graduate route, pensions, graduate mobility
This week on the podcast the Home Office has commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee to review the Graduate route visa - what could be on the cards come its conclusions in May?
Plus UUK and UCEA are trying to pull out of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS), and there’s a new tool from ONS tha…
Budget, student finance, consumer rights
This week on the podcast we pore over Rachel Reeves’ first budget and consider the implications for universities. We also think about students’ finances as bus fares and the minimum wage both rise. Plus OfS has been rattling its sabre on consumer rights—but is the sector taking any notice?
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Boys behind in school: the gap nobody talks about: TheTinMen meets Mary Curnock Cook CBE
Mary Curnock Cook has a lifetime of priceless career experience within education; that has seen her work across the school system, right to the very top, where she served as Chief Executive Officer of UCAS for several years, and remains one of the UK’s most respected independent advisors within edu…
Regret, provider collapse, WP
This week on the podcast we discuss new research on student regret, as a report from the University of Bristol reveals that while two-thirds of current undergraduates are happy with their choice of degree, it drops to less than half among recent graduates. Are improved advice and guidance really th…
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