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].
For the past 18 months, I have been delighted to serve as HEPI’s first Director of Policy and Advocacy – a role which has cemented my deep-seated interest in higher education policy and instilled in me a genuine desire to contribute to the sustained success of the UK higher education…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Elaine Boyes, Executive Director of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS). It will come as no surprise that the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) First-year Student Career Readiness Survey 2017/18 found that socio-economic background continues to be…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Paul Humphreys, Founder & CEO at StudentCrowd and Member of the Higher Education Commission. Last month, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) published The Wisdom of Students: Monitoring Quality through Student Reviews. Here are two extracts from the Executive Summary: This…
Earlier this week, I was privileged to take part in the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference Annual Debate on ‘This House believes that for the future of higher education to be truly global, education must be free for all’, hosted at Aston University. As a speaker on the opposition…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Dr Matthew Andrews, University Secretary and Registrar at the University of Gloucestershire and author of ‘Universities in the Age of Reform, 1800-1870: Durham, London and King’s College’ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). University development has tended to happen in waves. The so-called ‘post-92’ universities were…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Dr Andrew Hindmarsh, who is an analyst for the Complete University Guide and also Head of Planning at the University of Nottingham. Any views expressed in this article are those of the Complete University Guide and do not necessarily reflect those…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Patrick Whitfield, Director UK & Europe of QS Enrolment Solutions. June has been a month of good news for proponents of the internationalisation of higher education. Heralding progress on the UK’s offer to international students, Immigration Minister Rt Hon Caroline…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Dr Greg Walker, Chief Executive of MillionPlus, the Association for Modern Universities. Greg has worked in different parts of the tertiary education sector in his career. ‘Too many graduates’, the populist press cry. ‘Too few people qualified in higher technical areas’,…
On Monday 25 June, the team at Oracle – a HEPI partner organisation – is hosting a half-day event looking at the big issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in UK higher education. The event aims to provide a platform for institutions to share ideas, strategies and best practices which…
This guest blog has been kindly provided by Dr Andrew Hindmarsh, Head of Planning at the University of Nottingham. His responsibilities include providing management information and statistical returns to official bodies. Previously, he was Head of the Undergraduate Admissions Office at the University of Sheffield. He is also the Chair…