By Beth Craigie (Public Affairs and Policy Manager, University of East London) and Dr Daniel South (Public Affairs and Policy Officer, University of East London) At the end of last month, we hosted members of the Lighthouse Policy Group at the University of East London’s University Square Stratford campus for…
This guest blog has been written for HEPI by Fiona Walsh, Partnerships and Development Director at Student Hubs, which is a national charity, working in partnership with universities to deliver social action programmes which support higher education students to engage with social and environmental challenges. Earlier this month, HEPI and the…
After March 2023, the UK-wide Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) will stop being the Designated Quality Body for English higher education, as the QAA wants to avoid losing its registration with the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education (EQAR). A new paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Where do we…
After March 2023, the UK-wide Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) will stop being the Designated Quality Body for English higher education, as the QAA wants to avoid losing its registration with the European Quality Assurance Register for Higher Education. In Where do we go from here? Quality assurance in English higher education (Policy…
Welcome to the new series of the NCEE / HEPI leadership blogs. Launching the new series is Professor Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire University (one of the largest universities in the United States), who has been described by Forbes Magazine as one of the ‘most influential people in higher education’.…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, President, National Conference of University Professors. Since the 1980s, the number of UK university professors has grown five times from 4,500 to 22,855. The professoriate remains predominantly White British and less than one-third are female. However, little knowledge is…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Elizabeth Halford, Director of Wells Advisory UK and formerly Head of Research and Intelligence at the QAA, and Michael Wells, Founder and Managing Director of Wells Advisory, a founding Commissioner of Australia’s Tertiary Education Quality & Standards Agency (TEQSA) and…
On Tuesday 14 March 2023, HEPI and London Higher are launching Living and Learning in London: What the 2022 HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey tells us about student life in the capital. The report is a joint publication by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), and is…
This blog was contributed by Louise Banahene (PFHEA) MBE, Director of Educational Engagement at the University of Leeds, and Jon Down, Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. Of the findings from the HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience…
This blog was kindly contributed by Peter Horrocks, Chair of postgraduate online learning provider, Learna. Peter was formerly the Vice-Chancellor of the Open University. Prior to that he was at the BBC, where he held roles including Head of Current Affairs, Head of TV News and Head of the Multimedia Newsroom.…