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‘You can’t say that!’ – New polling shows students want more controls on free expression

23 June 2022 by Nick Hillman

The Higher Education Policy Institute has polled 1,000 full-time undergraduates on free speech issues via YouthSight, a market research company specialising in students’ views. The…

Students signal significant bounce-back in the value of their studies

The Advance HE/HEPI 2022 Student Academic Experience Survey shows student perceptions of value for money and other key indicators have shifted positively towards pre-Covid levels.…

Vice-chancellors are sticking around for longer – and, on average, they stay put for more years than any Secretary of State for Education ever

26 May 2022 by Nick Hillman

The Higher Education Policy Institute, with support from executive search firm GatenbySanderson, has published a new paper on the changing tenure of UK university vice-chancellors…

Defend – don’t defund – proven qualifications for school leavers

In a new paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), Holding Talent Back? What is next for the future of Level 3?, 11…

No growth in Chinese Studies graduates during China’s ascendancy

31 March 2022 by Michael Natzler

The Higher Education Policy Institute is publishing a new report, Understanding China: The Study of China in UK schools and universities by Michael Natzler (HEPI Report 148),…

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What makes a good REF impact case study?

24 June 2022 by Alexis Brown

Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. HEPI has covered the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in a series of blogs by Dinah…

Living Black at University Blog Series: The violence Black students experience at university should remind us that Access means little without inclusion

22 June 2022 by Mia Liyanage

The fifth in this blog series on Living Black at University was written by Mia Liyanage, the author of our HEPI Debate Paper 23, Miseducation: decolonising curricula, culture and pedagogy in…

New Generation Edtech

21 June 2022 by Mary Curnock Cook and Chris Hale

Mary Curnock Cook, Network Chair at edtech venture capital fund, Emerge Education, and Chris Hale, interim CEO at Universities UK attended a gathering of leading…

Open Access: the end or the means?

20 June 2022 by Victoria Gardner

The second in this blog series on open access was kindly contributed by Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy, Taylor & Francis. Open Access (OA) to research outputs is…

Humanising the international student experience: the post-study reality of gaining UK employment

20 June 2022 by Helen Atkinson, Gemma Green and Jim Campbell

This blog was written by Helen Atkinson, Careers Consultant at Newcastle University’s Careers Service, Gemma Green, Head of External Relations at the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory…

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