Could universities do more to end homelessness?
In this HEPI Debate Paper Greg Hurst, a former Education Editor at The Times, calls on universities to do much more to tackle homelessness in a variety of ways.
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Universities ‘should do more to prevent student homelessness’
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Could universities do more to end homelessness? (HEPI Debate Paper 30) by Greg Hurst, argues universities should do more to track and prevent homelessness among their students and could play a wider role in supporting efforts to end all forms of homelessness. It…
The Road to 2027: Mobilizing the science and innovation system to reach the UK’s 2.4% R&D spending target
This blog was kindly contributed by Adão Carvalho, Professor of Economics at the University of Evora, Portugal. Adão is the author of a previous HEPI blog, ‘Goals-based R&D policy: high popularity, low effectiveness – What is the likelihood of the UK reaching its target of spending 2.4% of GDP on R&D…
Breaking Down Barriers Together
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the representative body for more than forty universities and higher education colleges across London. It is a summary of remarks presented at Bloomsbury Institute London’s ‘Taking Shape: Teaching and Learning Conference’ on 13 July…
Where London students will live in the next decade (and why the London Plan is failing them)
This blog was written in a personal capacity by David Tymms, Chair, British Property Federation Student Accommodation Committee and a Director at iQ Student Accommodation. The numbers London is the epicentre of the United Kingdom’s, and arguably the world’s, higher education system generating £17 billion of goods and services in…
A Free Speech Champion or Censor?
Dean Machin is Head of Public Policy at the University of Portsmouth. He is a former philosopher who has advised David Willetts. In 2015, he wrote a report on data-sharing for the Social Mobility Commission. Dean is writing here in a personal capacity. By the time the Free Speech Bill returns…
BTEC cull? Unpalatable impacts for Health & Social Care and Engineering progression
This blog was kindly contributed by Mary Curnock Cook CBE, Chair of Pearson Education Ltd, the UK-regulated qualifications arm of Pearson. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook. The start of 2022 opened with a strong show of support for the Level 3 BTEC and Applied General qualifications, with more…
Why University Governors Should Do More to Protect Academic Quality
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Why it is time for university governors to do more on academic quality (HEPI Policy Note 36), notes the growing responsibility that boards of higher education institutions have on issues of academic quality. The report, which focuses mainly on England, calls on governors…
Why University Governors Should Do More to Protect Academic Quality
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Why it is time for university governors to do more on academic quality (HEPI Policy Note 36), notes the growing responsibility that boards of higher education institutions have on issues of academic quality. The report, which focuses mainly on England, calls on governors…
Why aren’t more graduates going into SMEs when they leave college or university?
By Lucy Haire and Laura Brassington at HEPI in conversation with Clare Adams, Joanne Patterson and Michael Harbaugh at Handshake. Handshake are on Twitter @joinhandshakeuk. Around 500,000 new graduates are leaving UK universities and colleges up and down the country this summer. Those long years of study, never-ending nights of revision and…