This blog was written by Professor Michael Young, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), University of Sunderland. Stefan Collini’s What are universities for? (2012) reserves just a few pithy paragraphs for quality assurance. This emphasis hardly reflects the sector’s experience since the advent of the Office for Students (OfS), charged it seems to destabilise England’s quality…
This blog was written by Dr Pauline Miller Judd, Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) Entrepreneurial Heads Programme and Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University. It is the ninth in our series on leadership in partnership with NCEE. The need for universities to be entrepreneurial in their approach has been increasingly…
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. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. HEPI is running a…
This blog was contributed by Meti Basiri, Co-Founder, ApplyBoard. As the global economy edges closer to recession, competition for international talent will be more critical than ever before. The theme of the ApplyBoard trends report, released on 14 November 2022, is obvious from its title, A New Era of Student Choice…
By Rebecca Williams Rebecca Williams is a Lecturer in Environmental Law at Edinburgh Napier University. Previously she was a Teaching Fellow and the Interim Director of the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance at the University of Strathclyde. Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental and agricultural law,…
This blog has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Martin Blakey, the Chief Executive of Unipol. In 2020, Martin co-authored HEPI Student Accommodation: The Facts (HEPI Analytical Paper 2) with Sarah Jones. Unipol publishes the long-running Accommodation Costs Survey with the National Union of Students. Rising shortages We are getting used…
This blog by Ceri Nursaw, the Chief Executive of NCEE, is the eighth entry in our current series on leadership in higher education. For the first time, we have seen that for leaders the biggest challenge is ensuring they lead their teams well. From our NCEE Higher Education Leadership Report 2022 through to…
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. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. HEPI is running a series…
This post has been kindly written for HEPI by Bob Abrahart. Parliamentary petition ….. Twenty-five bereaved families have petitioned Parliament, wanting a statutory duty of care for students in higher education. University documentation frequently refers to a duty of care, so most people will be astonished to learn that it is only a ‘moral…
Teaching and learning in UK higher education is at a pivotal moment as it moves back to widespread on-campus learning and teaching while seeking to retain some of the advantages delivered by the digital innovations introduced during the pandemic. Mary Curnock Cook, Chair of the Jisc/Emerge HE Edtech Board, and…