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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

Three ways universities can prepare for a possible general election

It is not beyond the realms of possibility that there will be a general election before the year is out – perhaps as early as…

Bridging the Research-Policy Divide

17 July 2019 by Iain Mansfield

A version of this guest article was originally presented by Iain Mansfield at the HEPI Partner Policy Briefing Day. “I can call up 50 academics…

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,…