HEPI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. It’s about the more subtle issue of how the sector aligns with the government’s policy priorities. There are always interesting ‘moments’ in the relationship between incoming governments and universities.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Shadi Hijazi, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. AI-powered transformations bring new opportunities and attractive reductions in time and cost, but personalised learning and assessment require clear policies on transparency and accountability to foster trust among students and faculty.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

AACRAO's participation in these discussions spans decades and includes providing guidance on transfer student practice and policy for domestic and international students. We’ll highlight policy support, guidance, and the technology training needed on campus to push culture from self-serving to learner-centric.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. On the eve of the publication of the HEPI Policy Note with Handshake , How can you help me? Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. is essential. Get our updates via email. Email Address.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The incorporation of corporate governance into academia introduces a set of values and priorities that can restrict the traditional autonomy and academic freedom that define a self-governing profession. This will ensure that diverse perspectives are considered in policy development. Higher Education, Aslam, S., & Joshith, V.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. However, policies at government and university level have yet to catch up with this surging number in the context of the deterioration of relations with China. Get our updates via email. Email Address.

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HEPI

JUNE 25, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Stuart Mitchell, Centre Manager, and Hannes Read , Policy and Data Analyst, both at the City-Region Economic Development Institute at the University of Birmingham. A life outside of academia PhDs are for life, not just for academia. of white people.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. I was struck by the contrast between the significance of their work and its relative absence from research and policy discourses. They are also often absent from staff directories, university websites and policy documents.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Like many others with an interest in higher education policy, HEPI Director Nick Hillman swung by Liverpool for a sojourn at the Labour Party Conference. At pretty much any Labour Party conference of the past few years, you could find higher education policy wonks sat in a corner looking dazed and confused. Here’s what he found.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. Increasingly, I've become convinced that the answer to this question should be "yes."

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HEPI

JANUARY 23, 2023

This blog was kindly contributed by Philip Carpenter, Pro-Chancellor at the University of York and an Advisory Board Director of Kortext. Philip offers some reflections on the recent HEPI and Taylor & Francis Policy Note, Why open access is not enough: Spreading the benefits of research.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch. ” After the Ivory Tower Falls is a book we in academia should be engaging with. Published in August of 2022. I’m hearing rumbles of book clubbing.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. University policy briefings written, risks registered and manifestos and speeches scrutinised. Funding, policy, recruitment and rankings are all part of the how , but they aren’t the why. And so it is decided. It’s been a long wait.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Priya Madina, Director of External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis. In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar.

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HEPI

APRIL 3, 2025

Katherine Emms (X: @kat_emms ) is Education & Policy Senior Researcher at the Edge Foundation (X: @ukEdge ) In the last few weeks we have heard the worrying news that the number of young people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET) in the UK is close to one million.

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HEPI

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog has been kindly contributed by Liz Allen, Director of Strategic Initiatives, F1000, and Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy, Taylor & Francis. We will be discussing the Policy Note at a webinar on Tuesday, 31 January. Find out more and sign up here.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

First raised in the Times Higher in October 2014 as a possible response to the political bind Labour and the Liberal Democrats found themselves on tuition fees, with wider recent coverage (see, for example, Palmer et al (2023)), student loan forgiveness costs “look highly affordable compared with some other workforce policies and interventions”.

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HEPI

JULY 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Somayeh Aghnia, Co-founder and Chair of the London School of Innovation. The Need for a “new” Industry-Academia Collaboration To effectively tackle the AI divide, we must create systematic incentives for technology professionals to participate in teaching part-time at schools and universities.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

JUNE 9, 2022

Similarities Between Industry and Academia. So by the time I got into this perspective of being in academia, that piece was part of how I operated. My favorite term is 'a thousand flowers blooming,' because what you can do in academia which works out really well is that you can literally start a lot of things going.

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ACRLog

MARCH 21, 2025

For example, in case you noticed in this blog post I avoided the phrase academic misconduct … academic integrity is much better because it places value on the goal, not the punishment. Academic integrity is not a neutral issue of course, but practicing intentional empathy without judgement is key to creating a learning environment.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E). Interestingly, while many universities have developed policies around generative AI, the more pervasive use of machine translation often goes unnoticed. The development of guidance for both students and staff is critical.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

I am Laura Brassington, HEPI’s Policy Manager and I am joined today by Matt to talk about his key findings. He is also Vice President of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, and Chair of the Universities Policy Engagement Network, or UPEN. They fly off into other research-related sectors. Get our updates via email.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Whether this gaming trend will fruitfully spill over into academia, I am doubtful. They should have both a Student Charter and an Information Technology Policy that are both reviewed annually. Is your institutional policy framework designed to cope with this scenario? That’s for the final blog in this short series. ….

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blog: Just Visiting Here, there and everywhere, I have been hard on the spate of “education disrupted” books that cropped up during the early to middle part of the previous decade. When we’re talking about teaching and learning, academia could hardly be worse in terms of its structure and practices.

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HEPI

MAY 27, 2024

The involvement of Higher Education institutions in green upskilling would strengthen the link between academia and industry, facilitating a more rapid translation of sustainability research into practice. Universities are also well-placed to deliver green skills courses to meet the upskilling needs of those already in the workplace.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Mark Rudnick , vice president of learning partnerships at Guild Education , and I first became friends a few years ago when he was in a similar role at edX. Unfortunately government policy offers little incentive to improve student outcomes or align to market needs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

Higher Ed Challenge 6: Political and Policy Changes Challenge: Shifts in government policies , including those expected after the 2024 elections, impact higher education funding, accreditation, and regulatory requirements.

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Kortext University Leaders' Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

A reflection on making research accessible outside of academia This blog on accessible research was kindly contributed to the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) by Philip Carpenter, Pro-Chancellor at the University of York and an Advisory Board Director of Kortext, and originally published on the HEPI blog.

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HEPI

MARCH 7, 2025

Today on the site, Professor Lisa-Dionne Morris explores the critical role of Black women in academia and industry leadership, particularly in Engineering and STEM, highlighting their groundbreaking contributions and the systemic barriers that persist. Rose Stephenson is Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. Read that piece here.

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SRHE

MAY 2, 2023

SRHE News typically contains a round-up of recent academic events and conferences, policy developments and new publications, written by editor Rob Cuthbert. Mark Hanson (Exeter) blogged about the predatoriness of MDPI on 25 March 2023. If you would like to see a sample issue just email rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk or rob.gresham@srhe.ac.uk.

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes The goals of understanding stylized facts and accurately predicting the effects of policy have been around for as long as macroeconomics has existed. The second goal is to use these models to analyze economic policy. It’s the tools that have changed. following the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Coursera blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Historically, however, collaboration between industry and academia has been slow and piecemeal. Data Analytics in the Public Sector from the University of Michigan and Google – Explore data analytics in the public sector, developing skills that can be used in entry-level jobs such as policy analyst and data analyst.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The most valued coin of the realm remains not just the book—especially for early and midcareer scholars—but a particular kind of book known only in academia and scholarly publishing as a ‘monograph.’” Grossman, an outspoken critic of attempts to curtail schools’ teaching of shameful aspects of U.S.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Emily Danvers, Lecturer in Higher Education Pedagogy (Education), School of Education and Social Work, University of Sussex. However, these processes are not always usefully captured by the current policy talk of ‘quick wins’ or ‘what works’. Emily is on Twitter @EmilyDanvers. Email Address.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

There were a lot of warm words expressed about both HEPI and Wonkhe at last week’s Society for Research into Higher Education ( SRHE ) event on bridging academia and policymaking. It was clear from the various senior speakers present that both organisations have filled a gap in providing accessible policy-focused information.

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Today's Learner

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Part two of “Digital Nexus in Higher Education” aims to demystify the complex relationship between technology and academia, offering practical guidance for educators to navigate this digital nexus while upholding academic standards and organizational effectiveness. There are great podcasts and blogs devoted to the topic.

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SRHE

APRIL 10, 2024

I continue to be an advocate for whole institution wellbeing, enhancing focus on academics in policies and practice, as well as increasing impactful research regarding academic mental health so it was pleasing to see university staff being given a spotlight. Academia has changed substantially even within the 23 years I have been working.

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