HEPI’s new Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Diana Beech, provides a summary of our annual Policy Briefing Day. If ever there was a good day to hold a conference on higher education policy developments, it was yesterday – the day the Higher Education and Research Bill (HER Bill) achieved Royal Assent.…
Each year, HEPI organises a day on higher education policy developments for our HEPI Partner organisations. With 2017 signalling a period of profound change both within and outside the sector, this year’s Briefing Day will look at: The bigger picture – what are the risks and opportunities for the sector…
John Cater, Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, has recorded an exclusive short video summarising his new HEPI report on the past, present and future of teacher training. It can be accessed by clicking on the arrow below. The report itself is available here.
John Cater, the Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, looks at the history of teacher training over the past half a century. Most of the recent reforms – such as a push for more school based teacher training – have antecedents. But policymakers have often missed the lessons from the successes…
A new HEPI paper on the past, present and future of teacher training written by Dr John Cater, the Vice Chancellor of Edge Hill University, will be launched at a HEPI conference at King’s College London on Thursday, 27 April 2017. Among the various recommendations is a call to consider replacing…
This morning, Labour have announced a commitment to bring back bursaries and abolish tuition fees for some NHS staff. This is smart campaigning because it is part of a wider strategy to focus on the NHS, and it simultaneously shines a spotlight on the current big fall in the number…
The progress of the Higher Education and Research Bill (HERB) through Parliament has dominated higher education news since last summer. Having passed through the Third and final reading in the House of Lords on 4 April, the HERB is currently subject to the process of parliamentary ‘ping pong’ – an…
HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, will today deliver a major speech on university autonomy at the inaugural meeting of the G20 – a group of Presidents from independent (or independent-minded) colleges and universities around the world – taking place at the University of Buckingham. In his speech, he will: note the benefits that institutional autonomy provides UK universities in…