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  • How does a modern university seek purpose?

    3 November 2022 by Martin Betts, Ian Dunn and Ceri Nursaw

    This blog was co-authored by Martin Betts, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Co-founder of HEDx, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University and Chair of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE), and Ceri Nursaw, CEO of NCEE. It is the seventh in our series on leadership in partnership…

  • Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

    2 November 2022 by Kostas Kollydas and Anne Green

    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…

  • Learning with the lights off: students and the cost of living crisis

    1 November 2022 by Andrew Jones

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Andrew Jones, Head of Policy and Research, MillionPlus. Over recent months, the cost of living crisis facing students has quickly become one of the most discussed issues in higher education. Modest rises to student finance have been wiped out by record inflation and…

  • Universities stepping up to promote free speech and academic freedom

    31 October 2022 by Steve West

    As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Steve West, President of Universities UK and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE). Freedom of speech and academic…

  • Freedom of speech, lifts, and the importance of terminology

    31 October 2022 by Andrew. M. Boggs

    As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. M. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). He writes here…

  • Emotional labour in the ivory tower: highlighting the experiences of academics of colour

    31 October 2022 by Blessing Marandure

    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 Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. Emotional labour has several meanings, and…

  • Learning from failure in higher education institutions

    27 October 2022 by Adam Shore

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Adam Shore, Director of the School of Business and Management at Liverpool John Moores University, Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Committee, and Board Director of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). This blog is the sixth…

  • Delivering the Future: How universities can leverage technical expertise to fuel innovation

    26 October 2022 by Trevor McMillan

    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…

  • Community – a lifeline for care experienced and estranged students

    25 October 2022 by Unite Foundation's Ira Hakim and a group of students and recent graduates who are care experienced and/ or estranged from their families

    Over the coming months, HEPI is partnering with the Unite Foundation to provide a platform for a series of blogs on supporting care leavers and estranged students in higher education. The Unite Foundation is a charity offering accommodation scholarships to care leavers and estranged students at universities. This blog has been co-authored by…

  • Fair Access and Participation: Sector-wide challenges need sector-wide collaboration

    21 October 2022 by Antony Moss

    This blog was contributed by Professor Antony Moss, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience, London South Bank University, and Chair, London Uni Connect. In the summer, all universities with an approved Access and Participation Plan (APP) were asked by our regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), to submit…