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HEPI asks: is it time for university governors to be paid?

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new report on whether university governors should be paid. Payment for university governors? A discussion paper (HEPI…

Comment on the National Student Survey results (and why the NSS needs another revamp)

Responding to the new National Student Survey results from the Office for Students, Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, said: It is good…

Why it is so important to protect free speech in universities

The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a robust defence of free speech in universities, Free Speech and Censorship on Campus (HEPI Occasional Paper 21) by Corey…

Latest Blogs

Students will be given more than 1.5 million wrong GCSE, AS and A level grades this summer. Here are some potential solutions. Which do you prefer?

16 July 2019 by Dennis Sherwood

The results of this year’s school exams will be announced in a few weeks’ time. But as recently reported in the TES, Times and Telegraph,…

Does Augar present ‘evidence-based policy’, or ‘policy-based evidence’?

15 July 2019 by Greg Walker

Today’s guest blog, from Dr Greg Walker, CEO of MillionPlus, is a full and thoughtful critique of the Augar review, and we urge people to…

Steering a course through the chaos

12 July 2019 by Paul Woodgates

A guest blog kindly contributed by Paul Woodgates, at PA Consulting It’s hard to remember a time when universities faced so many unknowns. Will the…