This blog was kindly contributed by Philip Carpenter, Pro-Chancellor at the University of York and an Advisory Board Director of Kortext. Philip offers some reflections on the recent HEPI and Taylor & Francis Policy Note, Why open access is not enough: Spreading the benefits of research. HEPI and Taylor & Francis are…
This HEPI blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Natalie Day, Johnny Rich and Professor Sir Chris Husbands. Writing for HEPI in December, Mary Curnock Cook and Malcolm Grant argued that the ways in which the Office for Students applies QAA methodology to new entrants to HE prevents the emergence of…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Scott Logan, Chief Executive Chair of the Association of South Essex Local Authorities Growth – like happiness – we all want it. But we can’t always agree how best to get it. The link between growth and happiness goes further than…
In recent days it has become increasingly clear that the Government cares more about generating red tape than it does about whether university students have enough to eat. What’s brought this into focus are two announcements from the Department for Education, one about the rate of uplift to undergraduate student maintenance…
The People & Planet University League was first published in 2007 and on the 6 December 2022 its 13th edition was released. Over the years its assessment criteria have become an influential framework which has been used to guide the promotion of sustainability across the higher education sector. When surveyed in…
This blog was kindly contributed by Francesca Peruzzo, Research Fellow, University of Birmingham; Rille Raaper, Associate Professor, Durham University; and Mette Westander, Founding Director, Disabled Students UK ‘Choice not chance’ is the Office for Students’s intention in setting out its latest plans for promoting equality of opportunity for disadvantaged students in higher…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Alex Bols, Deputy Chief Executive of GuildHE. The recent HEPI paper, Opportunities to improve university governance in England (HEPI Report 155), by Dr Alison Wheaton, is an insightful look into how we can improve university governance in England. It suggests that there…
Naimat Zafary came to the UK as a Chevening Scholar on one of the last flights from Kabul as the Taliban took Afghanistan. He is now studying for his PhD at the University of Sussex. This article was written with Ruth Arnold, Head of External Affairs at Study Group and…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Tom Fryer, Steve Westlake and Professor Steven Jones. On 12 January, UCAS released Future of Undergraduate Admissions, a report that contained details of five upcoming reforms. In the report, UCAS proposes to reform the free-text personal statement into a series of questions. This…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sam Fankhauser, Professor of Climate Economics and Policy at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. At COP27 in Egypt this November – officially, the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change – a sobering…