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This blog was kindly contributed by Mat Oakley, Head of UK and European commercial research at Savills. You can find Savills on Twitter @savills. After over a year of debate, anyone who works in the offices sector is probably more than a little bored of speculating on whether COVID has…
There’s always a big fiscal event around the corner, whether it is a budget, a pre-budget statement or, most importantly of all, a multi-year spending review. Waiting for the next multi-year review has been a bit like waiting for Godot. It has been repeatedly delayed: I recall going to an event at…
This blog was kindly contributed by Professor Randall Whittaker, Pro-Vice Chancellor Academic and Leeds Arts University. You can find Randall on Twitter @RandalWhittaker. On Wednesday 21 April HEPI hosted the third webinar in a series with Advance HE on ‘How do we ensure equality in higher education in a pandemic?’.…
We have been running a selection of chapters from HEPI’s recent collection of essays ‘Where next for university admissions?‘, which was edited and introduced by Rachel Hewitt, HEPI’s Director of Policy and Advocacy. This blog is the sixth in the series and is the chapter written by David Hawkins, Founder, The University…
Following yesterday’s debate on China in the House of Commons, we are running a blog on academic freedom that has been kindly written for HEPI by Dr Catherine Owen, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. You can find Catherine on Twitter @CatOwenExeter. In the UK, it…
We have been running a selection of chapters from HEPI’s recent collection of essays Where next for university admissions? , which was edited and introduced by Rachel Hewitt, HEPI’s Director of Policy and Advocacy. Yesterday we shared the chapter by Rebecca Gaukroger, Director of Student Recruitment and Admissions at the University…
This blog was kindly contributed by Lucian Hudson, Director, Advancement and Communications, Durham University, and Chair, Earthwatch Europe, and lead author of ‘Universities at The Crossroads’. Last year Lucian wrote a blog for HEPI about the importance of the THE Impact Rankings which you can read here. You can find…
We have been running a selection of chapters from HEPI’s recent collection of essays Where next for university admissions? , which was edited and introduced by Rachel Hewitt, HEPI’s Director of Policy and Advocacy. On Friday we shared the chapter by Mary Curnock Cook, non-executive director across the education sector and…
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the silliest higher education story I can recall. Back in spring 2011, £9,000 tuition fees were on the horizon in England but had yet to begin. So the insurance company LV= published one of those slightly dodgy polls that seems to have been designed…
This blog was kindly contributed by Johnny Rich, Chief Executive of the Engineering Professors’ Council, Chief Executive of outreach organisation Push and a consultant on higher education. He is writing in a personal capacity. You can find Johnny on Twitter @JohnnySRich or reach him via his website at www.johnnyrich.com. Last…