This blog by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, looks at two new books that touch upon higher education and ‘wokeness’, including Matthew Goodwin’s Voice, Values and Virtue. I was recently fortunate enough to spend a week on holiday in Paris. In the precious moments I could snatch away from queueing at…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published the first holistic picture of small and special-focus universities in Size is Everything: What small, specialist and practice-based providers tell us about the higher education sector (HEPI Report 160). This makes the case for major policy, structural and regulatory changes to increase competition, innovation and…
Size is the big unspoken problem in UK higher education. Small providers are stifled. Large universities enjoy oligopolistic advantage at the cost of agility. This damages institutional diversity and dynamism: the sector’s ability to absorb new concepts, to grow and renew itself. For the first time, this report provides a…
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Helen Laville, Provost at Kingston University, and is part of a series of HEPI / NCEE blogs on entrepreneurial leadership. In my last role as a PVC Education, I instituted a series of meetings with the departments across the university. In the…
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Kara McEnaney, Chair of Keele University’s Drug & Alcohol Steering Group. This is the second of a two-blog series on a drug harm reduction pilot organised by Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK). You can read the first blog, an overview of the pilot,…
*** UPDATE: A recording of the livestream can be viewed below *** On Tuesday 16 May, HEPI, Universities UK International and Kaplan International Pathways will jointly be publishing new research commissioned from London Economics on the benefits and costs of hosting international students, broken down by parliamentary constituency (updating previous…
At this even organised by Midlands Innovation, NCUB, UUK and Henham Strategy, the recent HEPI report The role of universities in driving overseas investment into UK R&D will be discussed. This event will feature George Freeman MP (Minister for Science, Research and Innovation), Lord Johnson (Minister for Investment), Dr Alexis Brown…
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sam Bailey-Watts of FRAH Consulting An overview The UK media outlets filled many column inches through September and early October 2022 as the scale of the student housing shortage, in some cities and towns in the UK, became apparent. It had been widely…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Meilssa Bowden, Content Writer at Kortext. If you want to know more about the impact of AI on higher education, Kortext Live, a free in-person event at Imperial College London, is taking place on 25 April 2023. What is artificial intelligence?…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Robert Partridge, Executive Director of Student and Academic Services at the University of Glasgow. Over the pandemic years, the number of students enrolled on degrees taught outside the UK has continued to grow. According to UUKi’s 2020/21 report, there were over half…