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Month: May 2023

  • High-quality skills as a means of attracting FDI and reducing regional inequalities

    12 May 2023 by Professor Warren Manning and Dr Jenna Townend

    On Tuesday, 16 May 2023, HEPI – in conjunction with Universities UK and Kaplan – will be launching new modelling from London Economics on the economic contribution of international students to the UK. For more details, including how to book a free place, see here. The UK’s economic growth and its…

  • Does the Lifelong Loan Entitlement meet its own objectives?

    11 May 2023 by Rose Stephenson

    The new Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE), due to start in 2025, is a major and positive improvement to how the student support system in England enables lifelong participation in higher education. It also has the prospect of commanding cross-party support, at least in broad design if not in the detail.…

  • Does the Lifelong Loan Entitlement meet its own objectives?

    11 May 2023 by Rose Stephenson

    The Lifelong Loan Entitlement (LLE) is part of the Government’s reforms to post-18 education and training. It will offer students a loan equivalent to four years’ worth of tuition fees (currently £37,000), which can be used flexibly over their working lives. This can be used to pay for short courses,…

  • Leading with Impact – how universities can maximise their impact on place

    10 May 2023 by Richard Calvert

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Richard Calvert, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University. In this article, he explores the challenge of understanding how we make a difference to the towns and cities where we’re located and argues for a sharper and more strategic approach to measuring and maximising…

  • How are HE leaders responding to generative AI?

    9 May 2023 by Mary Curnock Cook CBE and Nic Newman

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Curnock Cook CBE, chair of the Jisc-Emerge HE Edtech Board, and Nic Newman, Founder and partner at Emerge Education. Given some of the recent media coverage of the rise of generative AI and its potential impact on universities, especially around assessment and…

  • Great Expectations: Myth and the Student Experience

    5 May 2023 by Jon Down, Ellie Garraway

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jon Down, Director of Development and Ellie Garraway, CEO, of Grit Breakthrough Programmes. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. In his recent HEPI blog, Leo Hanna outlined the dangers of students’ expectations not matching up to…

  • The Necessary Imagination: a new educational dialectic

    3 May 2023 by Professor Andy Salmon

    This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Andy Salmon – Pro-Vice Chancellor External, Bath Spa University ‘The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.’ Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination This short article is designed to provoke thought. Using the century…

  • Assessing individual research performance

    2 May 2023 by Roger Watson, Dean Korošak, Gregor Štiglic,

    This HEPI guest blog was kindly written by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China, Dean Korošak, Vice-Rector for Science and Research, University of Maribor, Slovenia and Gregor Štiglic, Vice-Dean for Research, Associate Professor and Head of Research Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor,…

  • New polling shows over eight-in-10 students expect to vote at the next general election, that nearly half of students support Labour – and 7% the Conservatives – but that students are split on what policies Labour should adopt on tuition fees and loans

    2 May 2023 by Nick Hillman

    The Higher Education Policy Institute has conducted the first detailed political polling of current full-time undergraduates. Key findings: 85% of full-time UK undergraduate students expect to vote at the next general election 89% of students say they are registered to vote and 64% of those students who are registered to…