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].
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dennis Sherwood, the author of Missing the Mark – Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust, (Canbury Press, 2022). GCSE, AS and A level students will soon be sitting their exams. Their goal will…
This HEPI Blog was kindly written by William Wells, Deputy Director Research & Enterprise Division at the University of Leicester ‘Why are you trying to build a Space Park in Leicester? You don’t really have a space industry there.’ This question posed to me by a civil servant at a…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Jo Richards, Senior Insight Lead at UCAS. The cost of living is the topic at the top of everyone’s minds over the past year, and it is likely to be with us for a while. Students are one group that have…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by James Fuller, who supports the senior team at Lancaster University having previously worked in secondary school leadership. In this blog, he considers some similarities and differences between the school and higher education sectors and considers himself very lucky to be in…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Philippa Page and Jennifer Richards of Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute. HEPI’s recent paper on the state of the humanities in the UK today can be read here. King’s College London is hosting an event to discuss the issues in…
In HEPI’s final blog before the Easter break, HEPI Director Nick Hillman returns to the thorny issue of student number caps, arguing they’re for the many not the few when – in this instance – it’s the few that matter more. After a record-breaking three months in terms of engagement with HEPI’s output, we’re…
On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. Thirty years ago, I was a…
This blog was kindly written by Melissa Bowden from Kortext, in conversation with Sir Tim O’Shea. ChatGPT is a hot topic in higher education, with concerns about how it will impact on academic integrity and student assessment. We spoke to eminent computer scientist and former Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Doug Cole, Associate Director – Academic at Nottingham Trent University (@DougFCole), and Jon Down, the Director of Development at Grit Breakthrough Programmes, which delivers intensive personal development and coaching in UK universities (@grit_2017). As the access and participation agenda moves beyond broadening…
This blog was kindly contributed by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne. The TechnologyOne Showcase in London on Thursday, 27 April 2023 will explore emerging trends and challenges in the higher education sector with international and UK experts. UCAS projects that by the end of the decade, we could see up…