***UPDATE: A recording of the webinar can be viewed below*** On Wednesday 18 January 2023, HEPI and Kaplan International Pathways will host a webinar to consider policies towards international students, particularly the issues raised in the HEPI / Kaplan report ‘Not heard of this’: Employers’ perceptions of the UK’s Graduate…
In a new HEPI Policy Note, Why open access is not enough: Spreading the benefits of research (HEPI Policy Note 42), Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy at Taylor & Francis, and Dr Laura Brassington, Policy Manager at HEPI, ask how to make academic research accessible to different audiences. Open access (OA), under…
Open access (OA), under which research is freely available without paywalls, is one of the main discussion points of the twenty-first century research environment. The benefits of OA are clear, from making research outcomes more impactful in terms of increased citations to enabling their wider availability within and outside academia.…
***UPDATE: A recording of the webinar can be viewed below*** On Tuesday, 31 January 2023, HEPI and Taylor & Francis will be hosting a webinar to explore the challenges posed by making research widely available outside of academia and how they could be addressed. Our joint report on the topic,…
The Higher Education Policy Institute polled 1,105 students via the National Union of Students (NUS) for their views on careers services and employment. The results are being published in How can you help me?: Students’ perspectives on careers services and employment (HEPI Policy Note 40), produced in conjunction with Handshake. A large…
How higher education governing bodies should measure the value of their institutions was the topic of a recent roundtable hosted by HEPI and Advance HE, attended by higher education leaders and other experts in the sector. Higher education is under pressure – challenged by policymakers, students, students’ families and the media…
Since 2020, learning in higher education has been transformed by digitisation. Digital learning is not a new phenomenon, but its adoption by higher education institutions was accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The shift towards digitisation and online learning offers significant advantages. Making content available online and throughout the day can make learning more…
In a new HEPI Policy Note, The Future of Digital Learning Resources: Students’ Expectations versus Reality (HEPI Policy Note 41) by Dr Laura Brassington, HEPI and Kortext present the findings of polling carried out by UCAS on student experiences of digitally enhanced learning. Digital learning is not a new phenomenon, but its adoption…
In this interview with Professor Matthew Flinders, we ask Matt about his recent report, Research Leadership Matters: Agility, Alignment, Ambition, published by HEPI earlier this month. Transcript 00.00 HEPI has published a new report, Research Leadership Matters: Agility, Alignment, Ambition, written by Professor Matthew Flinders and sponsored by Worktribe, a platform for…
The UCAS personal statement is a 4,000 character and 47-line essay that each applicant submits when applying for UK undergraduate programmes. This paper begins by looking at the limited existing literature on UCAS personal statements before presenting some new analysis of applicants’ draft personal statements. The authors conclude that, in…