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  • Focusing on people – transforming lives at scale

    15 February 2023 by Professor Paul LeBlanc

    Welcome to the new series of the NCEE / HEPI leadership blogs. Launching the new series is Professor Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire University (one of the largest universities in the United States), who has been described by Forbes Magazine as one of the ‘most influential people in higher education’.…

  • The UK Professoriate: male, pale and stale (and unequal)

    14 February 2023 by Roger Watson

    This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, President, National Conference of University Professors. Since the 1980s, the number of UK university professors has grown five times from 4,500 to 22,855. The professoriate remains predominantly White British and less than one-third are female. However, little knowledge is…

  • The Heart of the Matter: Student Loneliness and Belonging

    10 February 2023 by Louise Banahene and Jon Down

    This blog was contributed by Louise Banahene (PFHEA) MBE, Director of Educational Engagement at the University of Leeds, and Jon Down, Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes. Grit delivers intensive personal development and coaching programmes in universities across the UK. Of the findings from the HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience…

  • When it comes to the NHS workforce, universities are an untapped resource

    7 February 2023 by Susanna Kalitowski

    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…

  • Gypsy, Roma, Traveller: living as an outcast

    6 February 2023 by Nicole Cherruault

    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.…

  • WEEKEND READING: Shifts in global demand for UK higher education and their implications

    4 February 2023 by Janet Ilieva and Vangelis Tsiligiris

    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…

  • LIVING BLACK AT UNIVERSITY: Creating meaningful change through collaboration – How the biggest impact can be achieved by uniting our efforts and aligning our purpose

    3 February 2023 by Sam Kingsley

    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…

  • Key regulatory questions for universities on Freedom of Speech

    2 February 2023 by Andrew Boggs

    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…