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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].

  • Interested in integrated degrees: it’s time to listen to what students want

    28 March 2018 by Paul Raybould

    This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Paul Raybould, Director of Marketing and Marketing Intelligence at QS Enrolment Solutions (formerly Hobsons Solutions). The Government’s consultation into post-18 education brings with it an opportunity for the higher education sector to review its place in society and its offer to students.…

  • Let’s talk about Social Value for Money

    27 March 2018 by Nick Petford

    This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Professor Nick Petford, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Northampton. The draft regulatory framework consultation undertaken by the Department for Education on behalf of the Office for Students (OfS) made much of value for money. The framework sets out that ‘Approved’…

  • As the NUS conference gets ready to kick off, where next for the student voice?

    26 March 2018 by Nick Hillman

    This blog post also appears at https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/voice-students-unions-too-powerful. I am cowering as I write, for my views on how best to listen to students may not be popular. Let me start with the less contentious parts. Of course students should help set the priorities of their universities. For instance, the complaints that…

  • Up for review: university fees and funding

    21 March 2018 by Andrew Wathey

    This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Andrew Wathey CBE, the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Northumbria University. This blog has been written purely in a personal capacity. There are a number of things to be welcomed in the announcement of the tertiary review, of which one…

  • The regulatory challenges for university executives and governors

    19 March 2018 by Roger King

    This guest blog has been written for us by Professor Roger King, who is the former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Lincoln and currently a Visiting Professor at the School of Management at the University of Bath. The arrival of the Office for Students (OfS) as a data-driven, risk-based, predominantly market regulator…

  • Time for ‘co-opetition’? Unleashing the benefits of technology in higher education

    12 March 2018 by Diana Beech

    At the end of February, HEPI collaborated with PwC to host a roundtable dinner in Birmingham on the impact of technology on higher education. Stian Westlake, Policy Adviser to the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation gave the opening address. The event was attended by senior leaders…