This blog was kindly contributed to HEPI by Mary Curnock Cook, who is a HEPI Trustee, Chair of Council at the Dyson Institute, Chair of Trustees of the Access Project, a Council member at the Open University and a non-exec Director at the Student Loans Company. She can be found…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood and Rob Cuthbert. Dennis runs the Silver Bullet Consultancy and is a frequent contributor to the HEPI blog. Rob Cuthbert is an independent academic consultant and Emeritus Professor of higher education management. @RobCuthbert On the 11th July, The Education Select Committee, chaired…
This blog is an edited transcript of a speech delivered to last week’s Festival of Higher Education by Sir Steve Smith, the Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Exeter – and the new International Education Champion. May I start by offering my sincere congratulations to Sir Anthony for bringing…
HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman, has written about ‘Universities and Brexit: past, present and future‘ for today’s Long Read from ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’. The piece argues: Standing (largely) aside in the Scottish referendum and then getting stuck in on one side of the Brexit referendum were both defensible…
This blog was written by KCL Physics PhD student and current HEPI intern, Bethan Cornell. Bethan is the author of the recent HEPI publication, PhD Life: The Student Experience. Find Bethan on Twitter @CornellBethan. On Thursday, 16 July 2020, Bethan will be speaking at a free HEPI webinar on PhD…
This blog was kindly contributed by Megan Bowler, author of the HEPI Report A Languages Crisis? HEPI’s important and timely new publication UK Universities and China raises important proposals on the need for the UK’s higher education sector to strengthen its collaboration with China and to provide a more welcoming…
HEPI is reproducing here the speech that Glyn Davis, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne (from 2005 to 2018), made earlier this week to the fifth Buckingham Festival of HE, which was held with support by Pearson and on which HEPI partnered. Glyn is now the Chief Executive…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) have published a new collection of essays on the challenges and complexities of the relationship between UK universities and China. UK Universities and China covers topics including: self-censorship; the importance of UK-China scientific research; and the recruitment and integration of Chinese students. The diverse…
UK Universities and China edited by Michael Natzler is a new collection of essays which provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges faced by higher education institutions engaging with China. The collection covers a wide range of issues from the importance of UK-China scientific research and the recruitment and…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sophie Cloutterbuck, Director of London Engagement, London Metropolitan University. Over the last two years, there has been a movement to draw attention to the role of universities as civic institutions. The Civic University Commission was set up by UPP Foundation in 2018. The Foundation…