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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].

  • Food for thought: takeaways from the 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework

    5 March 2024 by Helena Lim

    The 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) outcomes were announced on 28 September 2023, figure 1. At that time, just over 20 per cent of provider ratings were still ‘pending’ as they were being finalised by the TEF panel.  The OfS website advised that these ratings will be updated when the…

  • Riding the wave of technological change to enable transformative learning for all

    4 March 2024 by Ian Pickup

    As I was leaving home to attend a recent HEPI roundtable event, my A-level-year-daughter asked where I was heading. On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by…

  • A response to the Office for Students’ Review of Collaborative Outreach

    1 March 2024 by Antony Moss

    The story of the massification of higher education – whereby we have seen around 3% of 18-year-olds going to university in the 50’s, up to over a third in 2023 – is often the subject of debate. With such a growth in scale, it is right that our sector and…

  • The financial impact of AI on institutions through breaches of academic integrity

    1 March 2024 by Fawad Khaleel, Patrick Harte and Sarah Borthwick Saddler

    Breaches in student academic integrity include, but are not exclusive to, acts such as cheating, plagiarism, and others which gain an unfair advantage over other students. Previously, the problem was persistent but manageable for the academic world. However, emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and sophisticated search algorithms have…

  • Creating Robust Safeguarding Policies to Enhance the Student Experience

    26 February 2024 by Rose Stephenson

    Before I worked at HEPI, I worked at the University of Bath, developing organisational policy – so I have a particular interest in how national policy and regulation translates into action, on the ground, in higher education providers. I’m speaking this morning about developing robust safeguarding policies to enhance the…

  • The staff-student relationship register

    23 February 2024 by Rose Stephenson

    Today is the 23 February 2024 – one year since the Office for Students (OfS) launched its consultation on ‘a new approach to regulating harassment and sexual misconduct in English higher education’. The consultation closed on 4 May 2023 and the OfS was aiming to publish a summary of responses…