In a new HEPI Policy Note, Provide or punish? Students’ views on generative AI in higher education (HEPI Policy Note 51 – see it also on the Kortext website) by Josh Freeman, HEPI and Kortext explore students’ attitudes to new generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Bard. Since ChatGPT…
A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (www.hepi.ac.uk) sheds light on the inadequacies in the UK’s efforts to ‘level up’ research and innovation across regions, drawing comparisons with Germany and the United States. Regional research capacity: what role in levelling up? (HEPI Report 168) is authored by Jonathan Adams,…
The Higher Education Policy Institute is today publishing a case study on the University of Northampton’s Waterside relocation, written by the Vice-Chancellor who led the transformation and two of his senior colleagues. In University of Northampton: Waterside Story (HEPI Debate Paper 35), Nick Petford, Robert Griggs and Terry Neville OBE: The Report…
On Wednesday, 10 January 2024, HEPI and Advance HE will be hosting a webinar on tertiary education from 10am to 11.15am – for more details, click here. Thank you all for coming to hear my talk about Tertiary Education for the 21st Century. I confess that as I have prepared for…
A major Australian higher education policy review, known as the Australian Universities Accord, submits its final report this month. The Australian Labor Party announced the Accord idea from opposition in 2021, with the current review commencing after its 2022 election victory over the Liberal Party. As the name suggests, an Accord goal was greater…
This week is the last week of term at many universities. So we will be marking the start of the Christmas period with three detailed pieces on the state of higher education at the end of 2023. These will feature on our News page (and are in addition to the…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a new Debate Paper, Neoliberal or not? English higher education (HEPI Debate Paper 34), which includes two contrasting chapters by Professor Roger Brown and Nick Hillman as well as a Foreword by Professor Sir Chris Husbands. Roger Brown argues that the organisation of English higher education…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing a new paper, Connecting the Dots: The Need for an Effective Skills System in England (HEPI Report 167). It focuses on the urgent need to break down the educational barriers created by regulatory burden and competition between education institutions, which is preventing our…
The higher education sector in the UK is facing a need to deliver change on multiple fronts as it grapples with how to deliver more from less, the demands of government and regulators, the needs of students and the opportunities offered by new technologies. This has led to large portfolios…
In a new HEPI Policy Note, REF2028: Outputs Matter, Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick, argues the Research Excellence Framework (REF) is becoming overloaded – thereby diluting its core purpose. Professor Thrift argues: Academics’ actual contributions to knowledge are being devalued in favour of bureaucratic…