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  • HEPI / Kortext roundtable dinner in Bristol, Thursday 9 May 2024

    22 February 2024

    The launch of ChatGPT in November 2022 made generative AI freely available to every student and, since then, the availability, breadth and capabilities of AI tools have rapidly expanded, becoming ever more sophisticated. The speed of these developments has led both students and higher education institutions to take new approaches…

  • Report outlines a new future for franchise provision

    22 February 2024

    The Higher Education Policy Institute and Buckinghamshire New University are today publishing a HEPI Debate Paper on the benefits and challenges of franchise provision in higher education, along with proposals that would lead to greater levels of assurance as to the quality and management of franchise provision within UK higher…

  • HEPI / Elsevier roundtable dinner, 13 March 2024

    29 January 2024

    On Wednesday 13 March 2024, HEPI is hosting a roundtable dinner looking at new research from Elsevier on the priorities of funding body heads and vice-chancellors around the world, to consider both ‘what keeps them awake at night’ as well as how the results of the research resonate in the…

  • Cardiff: General election briefing – examination of higher education fees & funding

    29 January 2024

    London Economics, with support from the Nuffield Foundation, have modelled the resource implications – for students, graduates and the Exchequer – of the current higher education funding systems in the four nations of the UK. The analysis aims to improve the wider understanding of the current fees and funding arrangements…

  • Report highlights disparities in UK’s research and innovation investment

    18 January 2024 by Jonathan Adams, Jonathan Grant, David Smith and Martin Szomszor

    A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) sheds light on the inadequacies in the UK’s efforts to ‘level up’ research and innovation across regions, drawing comparisons with Germany and the United States. Regional research capacity: what role in levelling up? (HEPI Report 168) is authored by Jonathan Adams,…