This blog was kindly contributed by Peter Horrocks, Chair of postgraduate online learning provider, Learna. Peter was formerly the Vice-Chancellor of the Open University. Prior to that he was at the BBC, where he held roles including Head of Current Affairs, Head of TV News and Head of the Multimedia Newsroom.…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Susanna Kalitowski, Head of Policy at the University Alliance. The headlines have been dominated for weeks by grim stories detailing the extent of the NHS workforce crisis, which is deepening with the addition of widescale strikes. There are nowhere near enough…
This blog is in the form of an audio file by Nicole Cherruault, a journalist at The Times. Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. A full transcript is also provided below.…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Janet Ilieva, Founder and Director at Education Insight, and Vangelis Tsiligiris, an Associate Professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. The big picture: the collapse of EU demand for UK higher education The recent data release from the Higher…
This guest blog marking the publication a year ago of Living Black at University has been kindly provided by Sam Kingsley, Senior Belonging, Equity and Engagement Manager at Unite Students. As a Black woman, imagining a future where Black students flourish in all areas of their university experience is not…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. The Government’s Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill has now progressed through the House of Lords and the Department for Education, as the sponsoring…
This piece has been written for HEPI by Josh Freeman, who is a postgraduate student and a former HEPI intern. His most recent publication was on students’ perceptions of career services (HEPI Policy Note 40). Unexpectedly for a piece of legislation whose passage through Parliament has been painfully slow, December 2022…
This review of A Revolution Betrayed by Peter Hitchens has been kindly written for HEPI by Nick Bryars, who has taught in two different grammar schools and is currently Head of Economics and Business at a grammar school in Stratford. Last Friday, HEPI published an alternative review of the same…
This blog has been kindly contributed by Liz Allen, Director of Strategic Initiatives, F1000, and Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy, Taylor & Francis. View the recording of our recent webinar about the Policy Note here. HEPI and Taylor & Francis have been exploring the theme of open access and research impact…
Review of Peter Hitchens’s new book ‘A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System’ by Paul Ashwin, Professor of Higher Education, Head of Department and Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Lancaster University. Next week, HEPI will be running a second review of the same book…