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Today’s HEPI blog is in the form of the Foreword to the recent HEPI / UPP Foundation report on Public Attitudes to Higher Education (February 2023). The Foreword was jointly written by Richard Brabner, the Director of the UPP Foundation, and Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute. This…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by John Abell, Chief Executive of Coventry University Students’ Union, and is part of HEPI’s current series of blogs with NCEE. On the morning of Thursday, 30 March 2023, HEPI and the UPP Foundation will be running a free event on ’Public Attitudes…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Martin Blakey, the Chief Executive of Unipol. In 2020, Martin co-authored HEPI Student Accommodation: The Facts (HEPI Analytical Paper 2) with Sarah Jones. Unipol publishes the long-running Accommodation Costs Survey with the National Union of Students. Recent trends in admissions (from UCAS…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Ian Walmsley, the Provost of Imperial College London and former Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Hooke Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford. This year, 2023, began with both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition talking…
This HEPI guest blog has been written by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager – Student Experience at Coventry University. In today’s VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous) world, there is increasing pressure on the UK higher education sector to produce highly-skilled global ready graduates. However, the conversation on skills shortages,…
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.…