This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Sir Chris Husbands, who was Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University between 2016 and 2023, and is now a Director of Higher Futures, working with university leaders to lead sustainable solutions to institutional challenges. The scale of the funding challenge in higher education…
Thanks to the CDBU and to HEPI for the invitation to attend and take part in today’s discussion. My speech today has been titled ‘A graduate contribution model’. Of course, for UK graduates not from Scotland, I’m sure they would make the point that they very much do contribute through…
Entering into higher education policy by accident Like almost everyone else working in higher education policy, I fell into the area by accident. In the second half of 2007, I was invited to go and work as the Chief of Staff for the Shadow Cabinet member David Willetts. I had…
HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, starts 2025 by looking back at some HEPI controversies from the last decade. New Year’s Day marked the first day of my twelfth year at HEPI. Over that time, I’ve had a hand in publishing (and writing) over 200 reports. None has stoked controversy for the…
Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, takes a look at three thought-provoking books covering education that were published this year. All must have prizes – Mania by Lionel Shriver The novel Mania by Lionel Shriver imagines a world in which twenty-first century US life came to be the opposite of a meritocracy. Words like ‘dumb’ and…
This afternoon, in central Birmingham, Lloyds Banking Group and PwC will launch an important new report on the civic role of universities and the links with economic growth. The Foreword to the report has been written by HEPI Director Nick Hillman and is reproduced below. All our higher education institutions…
This week, HEPI is marking the 25th anniversary of devolution. Here, HEPI Director Nick Hillman asks if the advantages have been overcooked when it comes to higher education. ***Tomorrow, HEPI will be hosting a webinar on the LSBU / HEPI Social Mobility Index and, on 10 December we will be…
Foreword Within higher education, there is much discourse around assessment. Central tenants to this conversation are those of assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. Assessment of learning is clear, we utilise assessments to determine the students have mastered the content being assessed. Assessment for learning is…
Today’s blog is in the form of the contribution by HEPI’s Director, Nick Hillman, to ‘Triumph like a Girl – An Anthology for Hope: Letters and Poems’, which is a new book marking the 150th anniversary of the Girls’ Schools Association (GSA), which hosted their Annual Conference in Manchester earlier this week. The…
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