A new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Thirty years on: Leadership convergence between newer and older universities (HEPI Policy Note 37) by Rohan Selva-Radov, explores the changing tenure of UK university vice-chancellors. The report shows that while the vice-chancellors of post-1992 universities used to serve much longer terms…
In May 2022, HEPI published Policy Note 34, Digging in? The changing tenure of UK vice-chancellors, measuring the lengths of tenure of vice-chancellors at long-standing UK universities. The year 2022 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992), which granted university status to then…
Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. Here, Dr Helen Turner, Director…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Tim Bradshaw, Chief Executive of the Russell Group. The immediate challenge for the new Prime Minister will rightly be the cost-of-living crisis, closely followed by the related – and looming – energy crisis. But the new PM mustn’t lose sight of the bigger…
HEPI has generally paused its output during the period of official mourning for Her Majesty the Queen, but we are running this one piece by HEPI Director Nick Hillman that looks partly at the changes to higher education during her long reign between 1952 and 2022. It is based on…
On Wednesday 7 December 2022, HEPI and Handshake are hosting a roundtable dinner looking at brand new research on UK higher education careers services, based on new polling of students’ perspectives and expectation of their university careers services and graduate employment prospects. With guest speakers Josh Freeman, co-author of the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy at Taylor & Francis. The questions How do we make research more usable? How do we ensure research benefits all stakeholders? Is it enough simply to make the outputs of research openly available? We explored these three questions at…
This blog was written by Dennis Sherwood, author of Missing the Mark: Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust, published by Canbury Press. It was recently reviewed in a HEPI blog by Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of the West…
This blog was kindly provided by Professor Ian A. Greer, President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. These are challenging times for us all. Internationally, we have war in Ukraine; nationally, we have a cost of living crisis; and locally, we have political uncertainty over whether a devolved government…
Thanks to the Conservative leadership contest, which comes to the end of its tortuous journey later today when the new Prime Minister is announced, there has been high interest in the next Prime Minister’s attitudes towards higher education. That’s generally welcome, but it has unhelpfully taken the spotlight off what the…