By Laura Brassington in discussion with the Coursera Skills Transformation Team. In a recent blog post, ‘Five common predictions about COVID and education that now appear to be wrong’, HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman, pointed out that, contrary to common assumptions, the pandemic saw a rise in student applications to higher education…
This is an edited version of the remarks by Susan Lapworth, Interim Chief Executive of the Office for Students (OfS), to the HEPI / Advance HE breakfast seminar in the Palace of Westminster on 24 May 2022. Are we measuring the wrong things? Respondents to our recent consultations about regulating student…
In this latest contribution to our series of blogs on the REF, James Cleaver, Dr Gemma Derrick and Professor Simon Hettrick take a look at the potential implications for research assessment, were more open research practices adopted and a wider range of research outputs recognised. It is pleasing to see a broad…
On Thursday, 9 June 2022, HEPI will host its Annual Conference in central London. Titled ‘Challenges for the future?’, the day will include the launch of the Advance HE / HEPI 2022 Student Academic Experience Survey. Register here. This blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of…
On Thursday 9 June 2022, HEPI is hosting its annual conference, ‘Challenges for the future? The student experience, good governance and institutional autonomy’. Register here. The 12th in this weekly series of blogs on employability was written by Jacklyn Tubb, MAUA, Associate CMI, Head of Business Operations, Faculty of Engineering & Science, University of…
This blog was written by Dr Elizabeth Gadd, Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University. I’ve spent my whole career in higher education, but this has been my first REF at the coalface. And so this month was my first in ‘REF Central’, our institutional hub of spreadsheet-wrangling and story-spinning, fuelled by…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk), with support from executive search firm GatenbySanderson, has published a new paper on the changing tenure of UK university vice-chancellors over the past half a century.
The Higher Education Policy Institute, with support from executive search firm GatenbySanderson, has published a new paper on the changing tenure of UK university vice-chancellors over the past half a century. Digging in? The changing tenure of UK vice-chancellors (HEPI Policy Note 34) shows that, from the late 1970s to 2011, the…
Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. The 2022 HEPI / AdvanceHE Student Academic Experience Survey will be launched at the HEPI Annual Conference, sponsored by UPP, on 9 June 2022, which will also include a Keynote Speech from the Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle…
This blog was written by Dr Christopher Daley, Research Development Manager, and Dr Matthew Smith, Senior Lecturer in Public Humanities, at Royal Holloway, University of London. The authors are on Twitter @cr_daley and @MattSmithRHUL. Plans by the UK Government to invest 2.4 per cent of GDP into research and development (R&D)…