HEPI is a registered charity, regulated by the Charity Commission. It does not take a position on the UK’s continued membership of the European Union. Instead, it exists to promote healthy debate on issues associated with higher education. In relation to the referendum, this has so far included: commissioning a…
At the time of the 2014 referendum on independence for Scotland, HEPI and the Times Higher jointly ran an essay-writing competition looking at the potential impact on higher education. The winning entries were by Hugh Pennington, Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen, and Thomas Swann, a PhD candidate…
The School of Allied Health Sciences at De Montfort University is hosting a seminar by the HEPI President, Bahram Bekhradnia, on ‘The Government’s higher education reforms – the next instalment’, on Wednesday, 16th March from 2pm. For full information, see here.
As a country, we have been unable even to agree a term to describe new higher education providers. Are they ‘private colleges’ that have little to do with the rest of higher education? Are they ‘alternative providers’ that offer similar-but-different competition? Or are they ‘challenger institutions’ disrupting the whole sector?…
Our latest guest blog has been kindly contributed by Fiona Ross, Director of Research at the Leadership Foundation, who has a part-time Chair at Kingston University and St George’s, University of London, where she was formerly Dean of the Joint Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education. I was excited to see…