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  • Why there should be no surprises about the growing student housing shortage

    11 November 2022 by Martin Blakey

    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…

  • Leadership in higher education: It should be all about the people

    10 November 2022 by Ceri Nursaw

    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…

  • Research culture from a technical point of view

    9 November 2022 by Dr Sarah Bennett

    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…

  • Should there be a new statutory duty of care for students in higher education?

    7 November 2022 by Bob Abrahart

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…