This guest blog has been kindly provided by David Woolley, Head of Schools, Colleges and Community Outreach at Nottingham Trent University. If you are lucky, there may be a few times in your career when you are given the opportunity to really make an impact. For those of us working…
This blog is based on my remarks to a Policy Network event on the book, taking place in central London on 20th October 2016. I often wish there were more academics looking at higher education rather than just practising it, and it is rare indeed to come across a useful cross-country…
HEPI Expert Policy Seminar supported by the New Zealand High Commission and the NZ-UK Link Foundation The New Zealand higher education sector is small compared to the UK’s, but it performs well in international league tables and New Zealanders have given deep thought to issues from which the UK must…
This new pamphlet by Bill Rammell, Vice Chancellor for the University of Bedfordshire and a former Higher Education Minister, argues the Government’s obsession with market competition ignores the fundamental purpose of universities to serve the public interest. He argues that the public interest should be reflected in legislation and calls…
HEPI has published a new policy paper, Protecting the public interest in higher education, by Bill Rammell, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and the Minister for Further and Higher Education (2005-08) in the last Labour Government. The proposals in the paper include: changes to the new Office for Students to take greater account…
This guest blog on Ian Diamond’s review of university funding in Wales has been kindly provided by Lucy Hunter Blackburn, who is a Freelance researcher and postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh as well as the author of the 2015 HEPI paper Whose to Lose?: Citizens, institutions and the ownership of…
HEPI-UPP roundtable seminar on students’ mental health with guest speakers the Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP, former Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equality, and Professor Koen Lamberts, Vice-Chancellor of the University of York, at Hilton Garden Inn, 1 Brunswick Square, Birmingham (outside the secure zone), chaired by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director.…