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With characteristic generosity, Sir Peter Lampl recently sent me a copy of his new autobiography, Ticket to Ride (published by HarperCollins), which I review here. We have all had an education. So there is a strong tendency for our own personal experiences to shape our views. It doesn’t matter how long…
HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, recalls the contribution to higher education policy made by Shirley Williams, whose death was reported yesterday. The Rt Hon. the Baroness Williams of Crosby, more commonly known as Shirley Williams, has sadly died after a long and full life. She was perhaps best known for her…
Today’s blog is an extract from this year’s Annual Lecture of the National Conference of University Professors (NCUP), which has just been delivered by Sir Anthony Seldon (the former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham). You can find Anthony on Twitter @AnthonySeldon. ***Tomorrow, HEPI and Advance HE are hosting a…
Spending reviews and déjà vu After the recent rash of documents from the Department for Education, we must raise our eyes to the next spending review, when the Government decides how much is to be spent on different priorities over the next few years. I have a serious case of déjà…
Slow thinking A few years ago, there was a vogue for ‘slow thinking’, ‘slow food’ and even for a whole ‘slow movement’, all of which were aimed at reducing the pace of life down. In recent years, people watching UK higher education policy might well have felt the idea was…
Below are the remarks made by Nick Hillman, HEPI’s Director, at Sunday morning’s MillionPlus / HEPI event at the (virtual) Conservative Party Conference, with the Minister for Universities, Michelle Donelan, on the theme, ‘Back in Business: What can modern universities do to support Britain’s recovery?’ The video of the session…
One of the few academic books I purchased rather than borrowed, as a History undergraduate 30 years ago was Peter Mandler’s Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform: Whigs and Liberals 1830-1852 (1990). Sadly, I don’t remember much about the contents but I do still recall vividly how I felt when I…
This blog was kindly contributed by Darren Ellis, Higher Education Engagement Director at Unite Students. Student accommodation has been on a real journey. When I first started with Unite Students in 2003, accommodation was valued in universities but not especially visible in national policy. Indeed, this was reflected in the…
How many people attend higher education has been a lively political issue for decades – the topic of many official white papers and green papers, ministerial and prime ministerial speeches as well as HEPI publications. In general, politicians in power have tended to support expansion – for example: in the…
This piece was kindly contributed by Dr Audrey Songhurst, former Head of Operations in Kent Innovation and Enterprise, University of Kent. Audrey was awarded a Doctorate in Education from Canterbury Christ Church University and her thesis was entitled ‘Employability through a philosophical lens – a conceptual analysis’. One of the…