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On Thursday 7 July, HEPI is hosting a webinar to launch its new report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller access to higher education. Book your free place here. This blog was kindly contributed by Iain Brennan, College Services Director, University of York IPC (Kaplan). The mental health of our university students received…
On Thursday 7 July, HEPI is hosting a webinar to launch its new report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller access to higher education. Book your free place here. This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Omar Khan, Director of the Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) and…
This blog was kindly contributed by Nyomi Rose. Nyomi is currently studying Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics at the University of Bradford. She also runs her own successful social media and events consultancy. Nyomi contributed this blog as part of the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Unite Foundation and research into how…
On Thursday 7 July, HEPI is hosting a webinar to launch its new report on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller access to higher education. Book your free place here. This blog was written by Adam Clarke, Communications Manager at the Russell Group. Freedom of expression is not an optional extra for…
This blog was written by Peter Carlyon, Research Assistant at RAND Europe. Peter is on Twitter @PeterCarlyon4. Executive Summary Policy discussions of the UK’s research relationship with China are dominated by security concerns. While the idea of decoupling from China appears to be gaining increasing traction, recent research by RAND Europe has highlighted that…
Alexis Brown is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. HEPI has covered the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in a series of blogs by Dinah Birch, Rory Duncan, Simon Green, Andrew Linn, Cillian Ryan and Di Bailey, Bahram Bekhradnia, Peter Mandler, Andrew Wathey, Geoff Rodgers, and Nick Hillman. This week,…
The fifth in this blog series on Living Black at University was written by Mia Liyanage, the author of our HEPI Debate Paper 23, Miseducation: decolonising curricula, culture and pedagogy in UK universities. Mia is a decolonisation advocate and the former Co-Chair of Common Ground Oxford, a student movement challenging racism, classism and the legacy of…
Mary Curnock Cook, Network Chair at edtech venture capital fund, Emerge Education, and Chris Hale, interim CEO at Universities UK attended a gathering of leading edtech founders and report back. You can find the authors on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook and @chrishaleuk. London EdTech Week runs from 20 to 26 June. You can find out…
The second in this blog series on open access was kindly contributed by Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy, Taylor & Francis. Open Access (OA) to research outputs is growing and looks set to become the default. As OA becomes the norm, business, government, and society face fewer barriers to accessing research, but are they…
This blog was written by Helen Atkinson, Careers Consultant at Newcastle University’s Careers Service, Gemma Green, Head of External Relations at the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), and Jim Campbell, Assistant Director at the University of St Andrews’ Careers Centre. The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) is the expert membership…