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Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities. Universities in the Midlands and the pan-regional growth body, the Midlands Engine, are piloting how universities can work together to attract foreign direct investment into regional research and development. HEPI’s report, The Role of Universities in Driving Overseas…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Rachel Maxwell, Community Manager at Solutionpath. Rachel was formerly Head of Learning and Teaching Development: Policy and Practice at the University of Northampton and can be contacted at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-maxwell-phd-pfhea-40917561/ and @DrRachLTB). In his recently published specification for education and wellbeing analytics, Professor…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Lynn Martin, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Anglia Ruskin University, and is part of the current series of blogs with NCEE. University leaders are expected to be able to respond to considerable changes in the socio-economic environment, as seen…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Julian Gravatt, Deputy Chief Executive (Policy, Curriculum and Funding) at the Association of Colleges. Julian argues a reclassification of universities by the Office for National Statistics is unlikely but, if it were to occur, could result in a suspended sentence in…
In this blog, HEPI Director Nick Hillman takes a look at a book on the contentious issue of free speech inside universities. Last week, Nick took part in a panel session at the Advance HE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference in Hull, alongside one of the authors of the book.…
Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities. Universities in the Midlands and the pan-regional growth body, the Midlands Engine, are piloting how universities can work together to attract foreign direct investment into regional research and development. HEPI’s report, The Role of Universities in Driving Overseas Investment…
This guest blog in our series on leadership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, NCEE, has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Abigail Woods, Pro Vice Chancellor / Head of College of Arts at the University of Lincoln. Tomorrow, HEPI will be publishing a report on a…
This blog is by Ellie Russell, Deputy Head of Policy at University Alliance @UniAlliance. Q: ‘How did the Brexit chicken cross the road?’ A: ‘I never said there was a road. Or a chicken.‘ There have been several ‘Brexit chickens’ over the last few years and one that is occupying…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Harriet Dunbar-Morris, Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Portsmouth, and Tom Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth. In April, HEPI and Advance HE will be hosting a webinar on ‘Shifting priorities:…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Eve Alcock, Head of Public Affairs at the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). My twitter algorithm on the ‘for you’ page has detected that I have an interest in ChatGPT. All day every day, it serves me a new…