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].
In this blog, Bethan Cornell, a Physics PhD Student at King’s College London who is undertaking an internship at HEPI, explores how a small change could have a big positive impact. World Earth Day has been a timely reminder of the global climate crisis. If we are to meet the…
Surprise has been expressed that Universities UK’s (UUK) package of proposals for helping universities in the current crisis has not already been accepted by Ministers in Whitehall and by the devolved administrations. Today’s Financial Times front-page lead, for example, is headlined, ‘Universities’ plea for £2bn bailout falls on deaf ears…
This blog was kindly contributed by Lucian J. Hudson, Chair, Earthwatch Europe and past Director of Communications, University of Oxford and The Open University. Lucian has previously blogged for HEPI on leadership for the higher education sector, reflecting on issues from widening participation to the priorities for driving into the…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Stephen Allen and Dr Matt Watson, two academics at the University of Sheffield who recently held a conference on the flying habits of academics. To mark World Earth Day, the HEPI blog is exploring some ways universities can reduce their carbon footprint. To…
This blog was kindly contributed by Alex Blower who, having worked in university outreach teams since 2012, began his doctoral research at the University of Wolverhampton in 2016. Located in the West Midlands, his study explores the formation of white working-class boys’ expectations for their future in education and work.…
This blog was written by former HEPI intern and author of HEPI Report 123 ‘A Languages crisis?’, Megan Bowler. Megan is in her third year at the University of Oxford and has previously blogged for HEPI on topics from the gender divide in languages study to learning languages one at…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dennis Sherwood, an independent consultant. Dennis has produced much of HEPI’s past output about A-Levels, including 1 school grade in 4 is wrong. Does this matter? and Trusting teachers is the best way to deliver this years’ exam results – and those in future…
This guest blog has kindly been contributed by Luke Cavanaugh, undergraduate at the University of Cambridge. Covid-19 will confront the British higher education system with as large an economic and structural challenge as it has ever seen, but its students must not bear the brunt of the financial consequences. A…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Mary Curnock Cook, who is a member of HEPI’s Advisory Board, Chair of Council at the Dyson Institute, Chair of Trustees of the Access Project, a Council member at the Open University and a non-exec Director at the Student Loans…
This guest blog has been provided by Dr Gary Gates, Senior Vice President of Pearson – UK Higher Education and Pearson VUE. Pearson is the world’s learning company providing content, assessment and digital online services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We need our universities to be…