This blog is part of the series featuring ideas contained in the new HEPI-Brightside report, Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director for Fair Access and Participation. It showcases the idea from Professor Tim Quine, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Exeter. Ensuring a…
Today, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Brightside have released a new report, Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation. The ideas contained in the report are as diverse as the voices and, beginning today, we will…
On Thursday 10th May, HEPI and the social mobility charity, Brightside, will hold a roundtable lunch at the British Academy, to launch a new report titled Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation. At the roundtable there will be…
The new regulatory regime for higher education in England incorporates a new approach to access and participation. A new Director of Fair Access and Participation (Chris Millward) will encourage universities to make further and faster progress than ever before. HEPI and Brightside jointly asked 35 leading thinkers for their views…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and Brightside have today released a collection of action points for the new Office for Students on unlocking access to higher education. Reaching the parts of society universities have missed: A manifesto for the new Director of Fair Access and Participation contains the views…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Mark Corney. Mark is a post-16 education and labour market consultant. The review of post-18 education and funding in England is a creature of the present Conservative government. Under Labour, a fee-free system would apply in both the higher education (HE) and…
The third in a new series of HEPI roundtable dinners, developed in partnership with PwC, exploring the key strategic challenges for the HE sector and individual institutions. To be held at PwC’s office in London, the focus of the discussion will be on ‘What will success look like for universities…
This guest blog has been kindly provided by Jack Grimston, formerly Education Correspondent and then Deputy Political Editor of the Sunday Times. It is based on a talk he gave at HEPI’s recent Policy Briefing Forum. As only an occasional visitor to the world of higher education, I thought I…
There is considerable media coverage today of the Government’s plans to alter the protection of free speech within higher education institutions. Here are six points about free speech, which were delivered by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to a meeting at Trinity College, Cambridge, on the evening of 2 May 2018. 1.…
The third in a new series of HEPI roundtable dinners, developed in partnership with PwC, exploring the key strategic challenges for the HE sector and individual institutions. To be held at PwC’s office in London, the focus of the discussion will be on ‘What will success look like for universities…