This blog was written by Dr Fotios Mitsakis, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent Business School. Fotios is the PI of ‘Flexible working arrangements and presenteeism in the UK Higher Education Sector during and post the COVID-19 Pandemic’, a collaborative project between Nottingham Business School – Nottingham Trent University, Strathclyde Business School – University…
There has been much talk about the diversity of Liz Truss’s new Cabinet. Even US news outlet NPR reported: It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Lesley Dobree, Leadership Coach and Leadership Consultant/ Advisor with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). The blog is the fourth in our series on leadership in partnership with NCEE. Being a consistently good and effective leader is not easy. In recent months, there has been…
This report analyses the state of debate on UK university campuses, with particular reference to student debating societies. It finds existing problems include a lot of ‘quiet’ no-platforming, meaning students are put off from inviting external speakers by the hassle, cost and risk of controversy. While rejecting the idea that…
A new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute shines a light for the first time on university debating unions and the speakers they invite onto campus. The new research by Josh Freeman, published as No Platform: Speaker Events at University Debating Unions (HEPI Report 153), is based on statistical analysis of…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer, London Higher. In her closing speech at last week’s Conservative Party Conference, Prime Minister Liz Truss made it clear that her Government’s priority is all about growth. In the speech, Truss stressed the need for the UK to be ‘internationally…
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. HEPI is running a series…
Over the coming months, HEPI is partnering with the Unite Foundation to provide a platform for a series of blogs on supporting care leavers and estranged students in higher education. The first blog in the series was contributed by Fiona Ellison, Director of the Unite Foundation. Care leavers are one of the most…
HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. In recognition of World Mental Health Day, Anna Meier, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham, shares her thoughts on the subject. The first time I…
HEPI’s Director of Partnerships, Lucy Haire, reflects on party conference season. Tariq (not his real name), the Warrington taxi driver who drove me the final 20 miles of my journey blighted by multiple train cancellations from London to the recent Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, asked what brought me northwards.…