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This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood and Rob Cuthbert. Dennis runs the Silver Bullet Consultancy and is a frequent contributor to the HEPI blog. Rob Cuthbert is an independent academic consultant and Emeritus Professor of higher education management. @RobCuthbert On the 11th July, The Education Select Committee, chaired…
This blog is an edited transcript of a speech delivered to last week’s Festival of Higher Education by Sir Steve Smith, the Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive of the University of Exeter – and the new International Education Champion. May I start by offering my sincere congratulations to Sir Anthony for bringing…
This blog was written by KCL Physics PhD student and current HEPI intern, Bethan Cornell. Bethan is the author of the recent HEPI publication, PhD Life: The Student Experience. Find Bethan on Twitter @CornellBethan. On Thursday, 16 July 2020, Bethan will be speaking at a free HEPI webinar on PhD…
This blog was kindly contributed by Megan Bowler, author of the HEPI Report A Languages Crisis? HEPI’s important and timely new publication UK Universities and China raises important proposals on the need for the UK’s higher education sector to strengthen its collaboration with China and to provide a more welcoming…
HEPI is reproducing here the speech that Glyn Davis, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne (from 2005 to 2018), made earlier this week to the fifth Buckingham Festival of HE, which was held with support by Pearson and on which HEPI partnered. Glyn is now the Chief Executive…
This blog was kindly contributed by Sophie Cloutterbuck, Director of London Engagement, London Metropolitan University. Over the last two years, there has been a movement to draw attention to the role of universities as civic institutions. The Civic University Commission was set up by UPP Foundation in 2018. The Foundation…
This blog was kindly contributed by Gordon Marsden, Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019. You can find him on Twitter @GordonMarsden. Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Lines from the Irish writer W.B. Yeats poem,…
The author, Nick Hillman, thanks the multiple sources who provided information for this article, all of whom work closely with international students. In an increasingly competitive global higher education market, current and prospective international students are making difficult decisions about where to study, not just for next year, but potentially…
People growing up on the estate where I work are more likely to go without breakfast than progress to higher education.
This blog was written by HEPI intern and KCL Physics PhD student Bethan Cornell. Bethan is the author of the recent HEPI publication, PhD Life: The Student Experience. Earlier this week, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) published the Government’s UK Research and Development Roadmap, outlining how…