The HEPI Blog aims to make brief, incisive contributions to the higher education policy landscape. It is circulated to our subscribers and published online. We welcome guest submissions, which should follow our Instructions for Blog Authors. Submissions should be sent to our Blog Editor, Josh Freeman, at [email protected].
This a guest blog, by Sarah Stevens, Director of Policy at the Russell Group is kindly contributed as a response to a HEPI blog, by Hugo Dale-Harris “Will new online guidance on ‘facilitating subjects’ help or hinder fair access to highly-selective universities?” Recently, the Russell Group launched a new interactive website to host our Informed Choices guide explaining how subject…
This guest blog from Dean Machin, Strategic Policy Adviser at the University of Portsmouth responds to the debate around the publication of HEPI’s Policy note 13 on measuring wellbeing in higher education. He writes in a personal capacity. Universities are investing more resources in their students’ well-being. This is right.…
As we await the outcomes of Dame Shirley Pearce’s review of the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), it is worth reflecting on what Sir Philip Augar’s Post 18 Review of Education and Funding tells us about the possible future of the TEF. In doing so, it is first worth considering four…
In a previous article on the HEPI blog we reported one of the results from our University Strategy 2020 research report: 63% of UK universities are due to renew their strategy over next year or the year after. This was based on an analysis of a sample of 52 university…
When higher education policy conversations turn to research, they tend to dwell upon the UK Government’s commitment to increase the share of GDP spent on research and development (R&D) by public and private sources to 2.4% by 2027. This is a huge amount of money – more than three times…
A lot is (rightly) expected of universities. Most commentators agree that the UK’s universities punch above their weight in terms of rankings, reputation and return on investment. Yet the pressure is on to maintain, explain and even improve this positioning. The UK’s current political instability and its ever-changing higher education…
This is a guest blog from Dr Joe Marshall, Chief Executive of the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB), building on last week’s State of the Relationship Report about the relationship between universities and business. The last year has been anything but steady. From the machinations in Westminster and uncertainty…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Professor Joy Carter, Vice-Chancellor at the University of Winchester Together as a sector, we need to re-evaluate what we do and to make the climate emergency a higher priority than it is at present. There are some notable exceptions, but the higher education sector…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Mark Corney, a Post-16 Education and Labour Market Consultant. It follows a series of HEPI blogs on responding to the Augar report. They include pieces by Professor Tom Sperlinger on Foundation years, and Professor Simon Marginson on broader issues of fair opportunity in higher…
A guest blog kindly contributed by Professor John Last, Vice-Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts The creative industries are creating the jobs of the future – where emphasis on human creativity and ingenuity are core. Not my words, but one of the keynotes of the UK’s Industrial Strategy –…