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  • Why digital transformation is crucial to success – an interview with Liam Earney

    3 July 2023 by Kortext and Jisc

    We spoke to Liam to discuss Jisc’s contribution to UCAS’ Journey to a Million, digital transformation and why partnerships are crucial to success.   How might the predicted increase in student numbers impact institutions and their staff? Digital transformation is an essential part of the solution to the predicted increase in…

  • What does delivering an exemplary student experience come down to?

    30 June 2023 by Leo Hanna

    Universities are faced with rising costs and shrinking margins, and the challenges are many. Student attraction and retention remains a priority, amid an ever changing mix of domestic and international students. There is no doubt the competition for international and other highly sought-after students has been heightened by COVID, and…

  • Which Whitehall Department should be responsible for English universities? By Dave Phoenix

    29 June 2023 by Professor David Phoenix

    The universities brief has never sat easily within government. For many years, English universities were notionally the responsibility of the Department for Education but were effectively regulated via funding incentives via the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In 2007, they were moved to the Department of Innovation, Universities and…

  • I am international, #WeAreInternational

    28 June 2023 by Anna Zvagule

    On the back of the HEPI, UUKi and Kaplan International Pathways report with updated figures on the economic benefit that international students bring to the UK, London Higher, along with Universities UK International, BUILA, UKCISA and British Council – Study UK, are relaunching the #WeAreInternational campaign. We are hoping that…

  • How far can tech address the HE sector’s biggest challenges?: Reflections from a HEPI Roundtable with TechnologyOne

    26 June 2023 by Professor Anthony C Moss

    I recently had the pleasure of attending one of HEPI’s roundtable dinners, in partnership with TechnologyOne, to discuss how far technology can address the higher education sector’s biggest challenges. The roundtable led, as one might expect, to an initial discussion about what exactly are the higher education sector’s biggest challenges.…

  • The arts and humanities: rejecting the zero-sum game

    21 June 2023 by Angeliki Lymberopoulou and Richard Marsden

    Degree students up and down the country are finishing their final assessments before seeking to enter the workplace. Among them are thousands of arts and humanities students whose employment destinations will be many and varied. And that’s a good thing. HEPI’s recent report The Humanities in the UK today: what’s…

  • Universities should put educational materials online and make them free

    19 June 2023 by Richard F Heller

    Plan E for Education is my proposal that a proportion of the educational resources generated in publicly funded universities be made freely available for sharing and use by others. This would be the educational equivalent of initiatives that require publicly funded research to be published in open access journals or…

  • Keep calm, and carry on … using Chat GPT

    16 June 2023 by Ninian Wilson

    It’s been a busy time for QAA responding to the rise of generative AI. After three webinars attended by over 2,000 people, discussions with providers across the UK, a brief trip to Tbilisi to share best practice with European quality agency colleagues, one piece of guidance out and another to…