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This blog was kindly contributed by Susanna Kalitowski, Head of Policy at University Alliance. After a sweltering summer that ended abruptly with a new Prime Minister and the death of a monarch, we find ourselves in uncharted territory. With a recession looming and millions on the brink of poverty due to rocketing…
HEPI, in conjunction with the UPP Foundation and the University of Sussex, is hosting events at both the Labour and Conservative Party Conferences on ‘Student Access and Success: What works?’ For further information, see the Events page of the HEPI website here. This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Sasha Roseneil,…
Over the next 10 weeks, HEPI will be running a series of leadership blogs in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). For more than 10 years, NCEE have run leadership development programmes for higher education to support creativity, innovation and the management of change. The first blog…
Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. Here, Dr Helen Turner, Director…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Tim Bradshaw, Chief Executive of the Russell Group. The immediate challenge for the new Prime Minister will rightly be the cost-of-living crisis, closely followed by the related – and looming – energy crisis. But the new PM mustn’t lose sight of the bigger…
This blog was kindly contributed by Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy at Taylor & Francis. The questions How do we make research more usable? How do we ensure research benefits all stakeholders? Is it enough simply to make the outputs of research openly available? We explored these three questions at…
This blog was written by Dennis Sherwood, author of Missing the Mark: Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust, published by Canbury Press. It was recently reviewed in a HEPI blog by Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of the West…
This blog was kindly provided by Professor Ian A. Greer, President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. These are challenging times for us all. Internationally, we have war in Ukraine; nationally, we have a cost of living crisis; and locally, we have political uncertainty over whether a devolved government…
Thanks to the Conservative leadership contest, which comes to the end of its tortuous journey later today when the new Prime Minister is announced, there has been high interest in the next Prime Minister’s attitudes towards higher education. That’s generally welcome, but it has unhelpfully taken the spotlight off what the…
This blog was written by Paul Ashwin and Charles Clarke at Lancaster University. It is based on a recent Centre for Global Higher Education seminar: ‘The Politicisation of the Regulation of Higher Education in England: The Case of the Office for Students’ held at the UCL Institute for Education on 25…