The People & Planet University League was first published in 2007 and on the 6 December 2022 its 13th edition was released. Over the years its assessment criteria have become an influential framework which has been used to guide the promotion of sustainability across the higher education sector. When surveyed in…
HEPI and Taylor & Francis are hosting a (free) webinar on making research more accessible at 10am on Tuesday, 31 January 2023 – for further details and information on how to book a place, see here. HEPI and Elsevier are hosting an in-person conference on ‘UK Research Looking Forward’ in central…
This report is based on interviews with a range of experienced politicians, political advisers and civil servants. It looks at how policymakers currently engage with cutting-edge research and considers ways to improve the relationship between those who push at the boundaries of knowledge and those who govern the country.
Speech to the Sixth Form Colleges Association Winter Conference by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, delivered on Wednesday 18 January 2023. This speech considers: Introduction It is great to be here. Thank you for inviting me. I am a fan of the sixth-form college sector in part because, personally, I think it…
This blog was kindly contributed by Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Rille Raaper, Associate Professor, Durham University; and Mette Westander, Founding Director, Disabled Students UK ‘Choice not chance’ is the Office for Students’s intention in setting out its latest plans for promoting equality of opportunity for disadvantaged students in higher…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Alex Bols, Deputy Chief Executive of GuildHE. The recent HEPI paper, Opportunities to improve university governance in England (HEPI Report 155), by Dr Alison Wheaton, is an insightful look into how we can improve university governance in England. It suggests that there…
Naimat Zafary came to the UK as a Chevening Scholar on one of the last flights from Kabul as the Taliban took Afghanistan. He is now studying for his PhD at the University of Sussex. This article was written with Ruth Arnold, Head of External Affairs at Study Group and…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Tom Fryer, Steve Westlake and Professor Steven Jones. On 12 January, UCAS released Future of Undergraduate Admissions, a report that contained details of five upcoming reforms. In the report, UCAS proposes to reform the free-text personal statement into a series of questions. This…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. At COP27 in Egypt this November – officially, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – a sobering…
Please note, this event is not organised by HEPI but we are publicising it because Graeme chaired HEPI successfully until 2014. On Monday 6th March 2023 at 1.00 pm, a Service of Thanksgiving for the life and work of Professor Sir Graeme Davies FREng CEng FIMMM FRSNZ will be held…