***UPDATE*** The session can now be watched by clicking on the video below. HEPI, with support from UCAS, is delighted to announce an ‘In Conversation’ webinar with Clare Marchant, Chief Executive of UCAS, to be held on Tuesday 11 August 2020 at 10am – 10.30am. Ahead of this year’s A-Levels results…
The future of higher education and the fallout from COVID-19 were two themes of the first day of the fifth Buckingham Festival of Higher Education, which went online for the first time yesterday. Sponsored by Pearson and held in partnership with the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), the fifth University…
The presentations from the webinar can be downloaded here: The webinar can be watched here: HEPI has recently published a series of reports on PhD students: A detailed study of postgraduate education since the last recession, Postgraduate Education in the UK (HEPI Analytical Report 1) by Dr Ginevra House. A review into…
***Update*** The session can now be watched by clicking on the video below. Following HEPI’s recent webinar with Michelle Donelan MP, the Minister for Universities, HEPI is delighted to announce that we are hosting a webinar with Emma Hardy MP at 10.30am on Wednesday 22 July 2020. At this event…
This blog was written by current HEPI intern and KCL Physics PhD student Bethan Cornell. Bethan has written on the blog before on a range of postgraduate topics covering accommodation and climate change. In normal circumstances, universities rely on the help of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) for the smooth running…
***Update*** The session can now be watched here or by clicking on the video below. HEPI is delighted to announce that we are hosting a webinar with Michelle Donelan MP, Minister for Universities, at 11.30am on Wednesday 17 June 2020. At this event, which replaces the Keynote Address the Minister…
There has never been a more important moment to ask students in UK higher education institutions what they think about their own lives. The 2019/20 academic year has been characterised by industrial action, a major global health crisis and rapid adverse changes to the graduate labour market. The Covid-19 pandemic…
A recording of the webinar is available here (the link will take you to the right page on the Advance HE website). A copy of the presentations by Jonathan Neves (Advance HE) and Rachel Hewitt (HEPI) are available (in PDF format) by clicking on the links below. This HEPI /…
In this blog, Bethan Cornell, a Physics PhD Student at King’s College London who is undertaking an internship at HEPI, explores how a small change could have a big positive impact. World Earth Day has been a timely reminder of the global climate crisis. If we are to meet the…
It has been a busy time on the HEPI blog in the past few weeks, and Covid-19 has of course been top of the agenda. With the long weekend in sight, we thought we would share with you a quick, easy and accessible list of our most recent output on…