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Month: August 2017

  • New Insights on WP: The importance of social capital

    16 August 2017 by Paul Clarke

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the…

  • New Insights on Widening Participation: Foreword by Les Ebdon

    15 August 2017 by Les Ebdon CBE DL

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the…

  • Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers – press release

    14 August 2017 by Nick Hillman

    The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside are jointly publishing a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers. Contributors include: Kirsty Williams AM, the Cabinet Secretary for Education in the Welsh…

  • Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers

    14 August 2017 by Edited by Nick Hillman

    The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside are jointly publishing a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers. Contributors include: Kirsty Williams AM, the Cabinet Secretary for Education in the…

  • Measuring teaching intensity: the authors respond to the critics

    7 August 2017 by Gervas Huxley and Mike Peacey

    This guest blog has been written for HEPI by Gervas Huxley and Mike Peacey, the authors of a new academic article that has received considerable media coverage for shining a spotlight on teaching intensity, which is increasingly an interest of the Government too. In research just published in the journal Fiscal Studies, we…

  • UK is (just) number 1 for educating the world’s leaders

    5 August 2017 by Nick Hillman

    A new study by the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) reveals the UK’s higher education sector has educated more of the world’s leaders than any other. Among 377 serving heads of state and heads of government, 58 attended universities and colleges in the UK. This places the UK just ahead…