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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…

UK undergraduate admissions – the outlook

2 November 2022 by Nick Hillman

This speech was delivered this morning by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to the GSA / HMC University Admissions Conference. Recovering from COVID Thank you for…

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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…

Leadership for Belonging in Higher Education

24 November 2022 by Sara Spear

This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. It is the tenth in our series…

Looking to the future for our technical community

23 November 2022 by Kelly Vere

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’…

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