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Month: August 2023

  • Higher education policymaking in the UK before HEPI

    2 August 2023 by Roger Brown

    It may seem difficult to believe now that, only 30 years ago, there was limited interest in the working and funding of the nation’s universities or in the opportunities they offer to their students. By the start of the twenty-first century though, that had changed and there was a role…

  • HEPI: The early years

    1 August 2023 by Bahram Bekhradnia

    In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher…