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 blog was written by Richard F. Heller, Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Manchester, UK and Newcastle, Australia. The rate of completing higher education varies greatly between countries. The largest disparities in access to higher education are between the Global North and the Global South, with sub-Saharan Africa at only one quarter of the global…
At the recent HEPI Annual Conference 2022, Jon Wakeford, Director of Engagement at UPP and Chair of the UPP Foundation, delivered a speech exploring the themes of the day and the wider policy context. This blog is based on Jon’s address to the conference. What are the challenges facing the future…
This blog is kindly provided by Mary Curnock Cook CBE. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook. I was so sorry to hear that Professor Harriet Jones – Harry to friends and family – died at the end of May after a long illness with breast cancer, aged just 55. Harriet…
This blog was written by Meti Basiri, co-founder and CMO of ApplyBoard, an international student recruitment platform. ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application and acceptance process to more than 1,500 institutions across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom,…
https://www.wfd.org/what-we-do/resources/post-legislative-scrutiny-uk-parliamentAs the Higher Education and Research Act (2017) is currently due its post-legislative scrutiny, this blog on how the process is designed to work has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Dr Tom Caygill, Lecturer in Politics at Nottingham Trent University and the author of ‘The UK post-legislative scrutiny gap‘…
Today’s blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Jenny Shaw, HE External Engagement Director at Unite Students. Students are anxious. This was one of the key findings of the Advance HE / HEPI 2022 Student Experience Survey, but one that may not immediately stand out against the other headline…
This blog was kindly contributed by Adão Carvalho, Professor of Economics at the University of Evora, Portugal. Adão is the author of a previous HEPI blog, ‘Goals-based R&D policy: high popularity, low effectiveness – What is the likelihood of the UK reaching its target of spending 2.4% of GDP on R&D…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the representative body for more than forty universities and higher education colleges across London. It is a summary of remarks presented at Bloomsbury Institute London’s ‘Taking Shape: Teaching and Learning Conference’ on 13 July…
This blog was written in a personal capacity by David Tymms, Chair, British Property Federation Student Accommodation Committee and a Director at iQ Student Accommodation. The numbers London is the epicentre of the United Kingdom’s, and arguably the world’s, higher education system generating £17 billion of goods and services in…
Dean Machin is Head of Public Policy at the University of Portsmouth. He is a former philosopher who has advised David Willetts. In 2015, he wrote a report on data-sharing for the Social Mobility Commission. Dean is writing here in a personal capacity. By the time the Free Speech Bill returns…