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  • The significance of ‘place’ and local partnerships

    4 January 2022 by Jane Robinson

    Professor Jane Robinson is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engagement and Place at Newcastle University. In HEPI’s most recent debate paper, One Nation University, Richard Brabner presents a timely and important challenge about the role universities can play to support a fairer society and stronger communities.  As we look ahead to the much-anticipated…

  • Why we need to stop using the term widening participation

    17 December 2021 by Stacey Mottershaw

    This blog was contributed by Stacey Mottershaw, Lecturer and Faculty Director of Taught Student Social Mobility at Leeds University Business School. When reading David Woolley’s recent post on The pervasive belief in low aspirations could undermine the Government’s ‘reboot’ of widening the doors to higher education, exploring the Government’s intention…

  • Subject and skills insight from the 2021 UCAS End of Cycle data

    16 December 2021 by Clare Marchant

    This blog was contributed by Clare Marchant, UCAS Chief Executive. The 2021 UCAS End of Cycle data provides a strong indication of where the interests of the upcoming graduate and apprentice workforce lie. The proportion of all young people across the UK getting an undergraduate place is at record levels…

  • London: The Civic Capital

    13 December 2021 by Diana Beech

    This blog has been kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech (@dianajbeech), Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the representative body for over 40 universities and higher education colleges across London. Diana was previously the first Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI and served as Policy Advisor to the…

  • UK-India higher education and research

    10 December 2021 by Janet Ilieva

    This blog was contributed by Janet Ilieva, Director and Founder of Education Insight and co-author of ‘Natural Partners: Building a comprehensive UK-India knowledge partnership’. The spotlight has rapidly turned to India,  the second-largest sending country for globally mobile students and home to the world’s largest youthful population under the age…

  • One Nation University: Spreading opportunity, reducing division and building community

    9 December 2021 by Richard Brabner

    In a new Debate Paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation, says universities and the Government should adopt the famous political idea of One Nation to reshape universities in England. Writing in a personal capacity, Brabner says criticism of recent higher education expansion…

  • The One Nation University: Spreading opportunity, reducing division and building community

    9 December 2021 by Richard Brabner

    In a new Debate Paper from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Richard Brabner, Director of the UPP Foundation, says universities and the Government should adopt the famous political idea of One Nation to reshape universities in England. Writing in a personal capacity, Brabner says criticism of recent higher education expansion…