Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. Another A levels results day has come and gone. Even before the results were in, it became clear that one of the abiding stories would be of international students edging out their domestic counterparts for places. Some even offered policy…
This blog was contributed by Alexis Brown, Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has long been a part of the UK R&D ecosystem. In a university context, it can look like investment in physical spaces (such as science, innovation and enterprise parks), business investment in…
Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. HEPI has covered the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in a series of blogs by Dinah Birch, Rory Duncan, Simon Green, Andrew Linn, Cillian Ryan and Di Bailey, Bahram Bekhradnia, Peter Mandler, Andrew Wathey, Geoff Rodgers, and Nick Hillman. This week,…
Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. The 2022 HEPI / AdvanceHE Student Academic Experience Survey will be launched at the HEPI Annual Conference, sponsored by UPP, on 9 June 2022, which will also include a Keynote Speech from the Minister for Higher and Further Education, Michelle…
A new HEPI report, What’s next for national security and research? by Dr Alexis Brown (HEPI Report 147), reviews what measures are in place to protect UK research from foreign interference, including the new National Security and Investment Act (2021) that came into force on 4 January 2022. It argues that, while…
As universities gear up for a new round of strikes, taking place from 1 December to 3 December 2021, they may wish to reuse online teaching materials recorded during the pandemic to limit the impact on students. But a new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) reveals confusion over…