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, Rose Stephenson, at [email protected].
The following blog is taken from a speech given by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Diana Beech, at Mills and Reeve’s Spring Conference, Higher education and research: a brave new world?, held at the Royal Society on 15 March 2018. In her inaugural speech, Prime Minister Theresa May…
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…
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…
All four parts of the UK continue to have a lively debate about the right way to fund the education of undergraduates. In England, for example, the promises about free tuition made by Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell at the 2017 General Election helped ensure the Conservatives stuck to their…
A new report by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) reveals the number of students in higher education in England is set to grow dramatically over the coming decade. By looking at demography, participation rates and external policy developments, the report predicts that universities in England should be preparing for…
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…
Today, on International Women’s Day 2018, the UK higher education sector should be standing out as a beacon of light for progress made in opening up opportunities to women. According to End of Cycle data released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for the academic year 2017/18, 18-year-old…
This guest blog has been written by Poppy Brown – author of a 2016 HEPI report into The invisible problem? Improving students’ mental health. It has been timed to mark University Mental Health Day 2018 – a great opportunity for the whole university community to join together to make mental health and…
This month, I have spent time at both Edinburgh Napier University and the University of the West of Scotland as well as various English universities and I have also recently penned a new publication on tuition fees. So I have been mulling over the different student finance systems in place…
This guest blog has been kindly written for us by Professor John Last, Vice-Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts. Don’t say it too loudly … but did evidence-based policymaking make a quiet comeback this week? Twenty months after Michael Gove declared that Britain has ‘had enough of experts’, the Prime…