Should student reps be paid?
"The very same universities that oppose unpaid work often rely on unpaid student reps themselves."
Month: October 2019
HEPI / Elsevier Roundtable Dinner ‘Universities and the changing research landscape – how will it play out?’
Our long-running HEPI research roundtable series provides a forum for senior leaders and policymakers from across the sector to discuss the impact of research policy on UK universities. The second roundtable in the new series has been organised in partnership with the University of Sheffield to be held at the…
HEPI Roundtable Dinner with Lloyds Bank, ‘The financial challenges and opportunities for UK universities’
HEPI, in partnership with Lloyds Bank, are hosting a roundtable dinner at Aston University on Tuesday 15th October 2019. The dinner will consider a range of key issues: With university funding under greater pressure than ever before (with, for example, the unit of resource unlikely to increase over the next…
HEPI / PwC Roundtable Dinner ‘The value of higher education to employers and industry’
As part of a series organised by HEPI with the support of PwC, this roundtable dinner in Edinburgh focuses on the value of higher education to industry and employers, with guest speaker Wendy Alexander, Vice-Principal at the University of Dundee and a member of the Scottish Government’s Enterprise and Skills…
HEPI roundtable on student employability, in partnership with Jobteaser
On Monday 7th October 2019, HEPI, in partnership with Jobteaser, will hold a roundtable lunch on ‘Universities and the student employability challenge’, with guest speakers Professor Anne Carlisle, Vice-Chancellor at Falmouth University, and Dr Cassie Wilson, Vice President for Student Experience at the University of Bath. The roundtable will consider…
The student vote: does it matter in 2019? Which seats could it affect? How is Corbyn faring among students?
There is a lot of nonsense talked about the voting power of students. HEPI has been tracking students’ political views and their potential electoral power closely since before the last-but-one general election. Here are some of the things we have learnt. There are some seats where students are thought to…
FULL VERSION: Universities of Sanctuary offer hope to asylum seekers and refugees
Fatima’s is a remarkable story, one of lucky escapes and pure determination that has taken her from her home country Syria to a refugee camp in Jordan and then to Greece in search of a safe haven before coming to the UK. Life here was hard. I have experienced stigma…
Rule change could enable more prisoner learning with positive impacts
In a joint Policy Nrote, Student loans for those on long sentences, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the Open University argue for an end to the rule preventing prisoners from accessing student loans until they are within six years of release. The proposal suggests letting longer-serving prisoners apply…
Student loans for those on long prison sentences
This report recommends that the Student Support Regulations for England and Wales should be amended to extend student loan eligibility to include people in prison who have more than six years to run on their sentence.
What does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for education? (And why do presentations on new edtech usually rely on old tech?)
It used to be thought the modern age would herald meals in the form of small pills, supersonic travel and fewer working hours. It hasn’t turned out like that. Instead, we rather like slow food. We tend to prefer cheap to super-fast travel. More income has often proved more desirable…