There has been much talk about the diversity of Liz Truss’s new Cabinet. Even US news outlet NPR reported: It is notable that for the first time in British history, none of the four most senior ministerial positions — prime minister, finance minister, foreign secretary and home secretary — have been…
This report analyses the state of debate on UK university campuses, with particular reference to student debating societies. It finds existing problems include a lot of ‘quiet’ no-platforming, meaning students are put off from inviting external speakers by the hassle, cost and risk of controversy. While rejecting the idea that…
A new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute shines a light for the first time on university debating unions and the speakers they invite onto campus. The new research by Josh Freeman, published as No Platform: Speaker Events at University Debating Unions (HEPI Report 153), is based on statistical analysis of…
The future of higher education at a time of technological revolution, changing regulation and political uncertainty ***A video recording of The Rt Hon Robert Halfon’s address to the Annual Conference can be viewed here*** ***Professor Robert Ford’s slides on the political environment are available below.*** On Thursday 22 June 2023,…
A new Policy Note published by the Higher Education Policy Institute, Thirty years on: Leadership convergence between newer and older universities (HEPI Policy Note 37) by Rohan Selva-Radov, explores the changing tenure of UK university vice-chancellors. The report shows that while the vice-chancellors of post-1992 universities used to serve much longer terms…
In May 2022, HEPI published Policy Note 34, Digging in? The changing tenure of UK vice-chancellors, measuring the lengths of tenure of vice-chancellors at long-standing UK universities. The year 2022 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of the Further and Higher Education Act (1992), which granted university status to then…
On Wednesday 7 December 2022, HEPI and Handshake are hosting a roundtable dinner looking at brand new research on UK higher education careers services, based on new polling of students’ perspectives and expectation of their university careers services and graduate employment prospects. With guest speakers Josh Freeman, co-author of the…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) has published a new collection of pieces entitled Research Evaluation: Past, present and future (HEPI Report 152), edited by Dr Laura Brassington. The dozen different authors consider the origins of UK research evaluation, the outcome of the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021) and options for…
**NEW: KEYNOTE ADDRESS FROM GEORGE FREEMAN MP, MINISTER OF STATE FOR SCIENCE, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY** Building on our programme of work on research, HEPI is working in partnership with Elsevier to host a half-day conference looking to the future of research in UK higher education, on Wednesday 1 March 2023…
On Wednesday 23 November HEPI and Advance HE will host a roundtable dinner on governance. Please note this is an invitation-only event.