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  • 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…

  • Regional research capacity: what role in levelling up?

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

    This report compares the UK’s policies intended to ‘level up’ the research and innovation capacity of regions with those in Germany after unification as well as in the US. The report concludes that investment has been too small and poorly linked to boosting research capacity. The report also confirms there…

  • 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,…

  • HEPI / Chegg roundtable dinner, 22 January 2024

    4 January 2024

    On Monday 22 January 2024 HEPI, with support from Chegg, is hosting a roundtable dinner looking at generative AI and its impact upon wider issues in the higher education sector, including academic integrity. The roundtable dinner will bring together colleagues to understand both how learners can be empowered by generative…