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  • 30 years on: what do polytechnics teach us about transcending the vocational/ academic divide in today’s higher education landscape?

    5 December 2022 by Katherine Emms

    Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. You can read all of Edge’s ‘Learning from the Past’ series here. The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. Unfortunately, shortness of memory in government and policymaking circles has created a disconnect between…

  • What has being enterprising got to do with equality, diversity and inclusion?

    1 December 2022 by Ken Sloan

    This blog was written by Professor Ken Sloan, Vice-Chancellor, Harper Adams University. It is the 11th in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). Prior to becoming Vice-Chancellor at Harper Adams University, I served as a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Monash University in Australia. The purpose of…

  • A truly global Britain needs more people with a global outlook

    30 November 2022 by Maddalaine Ansell

    This blog was kindly contributed by Maddalaine Ansell, Director Education, the British Council. Effective engagement with the Indo-Pacific region is critical to the UK’s economy, security and values. It is also crucial to maintaining the high quality of the UK’s higher education sector which is an enormous soft power asset…

  • What I wish every Minister and MP would see …

    28 November 2022 by Diana Beech

    This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital. Diana was previously Policy Adviser to three successive Universities Ministers and is currently Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors…

  • Leadership for Belonging in Higher Education

    24 November 2022 by Sara Spear

    This blog was written by Professor Sara Spear, Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at St Mary’s University. It is the tenth in our series on leadership in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). The ‘Building Belonging in Higher Education’ report by Wonkhe and Pearson emphasised the need for…

  • Looking to the future for our technical community

    23 November 2022 by Kelly Vere

    Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers.  Over the past two months, HEPI has been running a…

  • Are the Chinese the new ‘suspect community’?

    21 November 2022 by Chi Zhang

    HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Chi Zhang, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. ‘Kill the Chinese’ is a piece of racist graffiti found on a flagpole…

  • WEEKEND READING: Using technology to improve graduate outcomes

    19 November 2022 by Charles Hardy

    This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Charles Hardy, Education Partnerships at Handshake UK. Join Handshake at the Careers Leadership Summit on Thursday, 8 December 2022 – register here. It’s always been Handshake’s mission to create a future where the student and graduate employment market is more equitable than…