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New HEPI Policy Note compares students’ expectations with reality when it comes to digital learning resources

2 December 2022

In a new HEPI Policy Note, The Future of Digital Learning Resources: Students’ Expectations versus Reality (HEPI Policy Note 41) by Dr Laura Brassington, HEPI and Kortext present…

UCAS personal statements create inequality and should be replaced by short-response questions

24 November 2022

The UCAS personal statement is a 4,000 character / 47-line essay that applicants submit when applying for UK undergraduate programmes. There is growing recognition that the…

To encourage a sense of belonging among students, avoid excessive focus on identity differences and increase engagement with local communities

17 November 2022 by Dr Richard Vytniorgu

A new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Student belonging and the wider context (Policy Note 39, attached) by Dr Richard Vytniorgu, uses structured…

New HEPI report identifies opportunities for enhancing university governance in England

10 November 2022 by Dr Alison Wheaton

In a new paper, Opportunities to improve university governance in England (HEPI Report 155), Dr Alison Wheaton considers how university governing body members in England perceive their…

New HEPI report addresses the ‘research leadership vacuum’ in UK higher education

3 November 2022

In a new report, Research Leadership Matters: Agility, Alignment, Ambition (HEPI Report 154), Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield, asks what research leadership…

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Latest Blogs

What has being enterprising got to do with equality, diversity and inclusion?

1 December 2022 by Ken Sloan

This blog was written by Professor Ken Sloan, Vice-Chancellor, Harper Adams University. It is the 11th in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship…

A truly global Britain needs more people with a global outlook

30 November 2022 by Maddalaine Ansell

This blog was kindly contributed by Maddalaine Ansell, Director Education, the British Council. Effective engagement with the Indo-Pacific region is critical to the UK’s economy,…

Research Leadership Matters: an interview with Professor Matthew Flinders

29 November 2022

In this interview with Professor Matthew Flinders, we ask Matt about his recent report, Research Leadership Matters: Agility, Alignment, Ambition, published by HEPI earlier this…

What I wish every Minister and MP would see …

28 November 2022 by Diana Beech

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and…

Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

25 November 2022 by Professor Colin McCaig

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has…

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