HEPI

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, Josh Freeman, Policy Manager, and the HEPI team look back on a remarkable year in higher education policy. Today, we gaze over quite a different policy landscape from the one I wrote about this time last year. Email Address Subscribe The post What were we reading about higher education in 2024?

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HEPI

JULY 24, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Sir Chris Husbands, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. Keir Starmer has committed Labour to five ambitious missions, of which the fifth is squarely focused on educational transformation. The post Labour’s education policy is brave, but can they fund it?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

As the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill returns to Parliament today, HEPI is running two blogs on the issue. This blog was kindly contributed by Andrew. Boggs, University Clerk at Kingston University and Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (OxCHEPs). Email Address.

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HEPI

APRIL 20, 2025

Neil Ravens contribution to this blog last year highlights young men feeling unsupported and disengaged, and as with everything in this sector, the solution to this question is not straightforward. Only by doing so can we create a higher education system that truly serves everyone, regardless of gender.

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SRHE

APRIL 28, 2025

by John Kenny This blog post is based on research into the effectiveness of higher education policy, published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. The article, Effectiveness in higher education: What lessons can be learned after 40 years of neoliberal reform?

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HEPI

MARCH 17, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. In a recent Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) report based on a survey of over 1,200 undergraduates, 63% felt that their universities had a clear policy on student use of AI. appeared first on HEPI.

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ACPA

MARCH 20, 2025

This blog post calls Student Affairs professionals to action to value Other Mothers and reflect on their purpose. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 37(3), 3209. The post The Other Mothers in Higher Education first appeared on ACPA. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. Lunsford, L.G., and Rodrigues, H.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Andrew Boggs, Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies and University Clerk at Kingston University. This issue was highlighted in my previous HEPI blog on freedom of speech here.) ‘ by Josh Freeman.

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SRHE

MARCH 26, 2025

by Amir Shahsavari and Mohammad Eslahi This blog is based on research reported in Shahsavari, A, & Eslahi, M (2025) Dynamics of Imbalanced Higher Education Development: Analysing Factors and Policy Implications in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. am_shahsavari@sbu.ac.ir

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

Our recent series of blogs on AI intriguingly all had one argument in common, which is that we need to respond to AI in a nuanced, rather than blanket, way and to learn as we go. The key is not to try and steer around it, but to take advantage of it.

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HEPI

JULY 16, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Giles A.F. He provided some thoughts on what in higher education had changed for better or worse during this period. The new Labour Government quite rightly has a strong focus on economic growth and new higher education policies should seek to support this central goal.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Omar Khan , CEO at TASO , Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education. Impact on future students Second, higher education providers should consider child poverty through its impact on future students.

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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2025

In this blog, academics at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester give their thoughts on the report. Chinese students remain the largest international group on UK campuses, attracting ongoing attention from higher education policy-makers and practitioners. by Pippa Ebel. Integrating or including?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave, Director of Public Affairs and Engagement and William Wells, Deputy Director of Research & Enterprise at the University of Leicester. This blog is part of series of HEPI publications marking twenty five years of devolution.

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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.

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HEPI

MARCH 29, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is in the form of the Foreword to the recent HEPI / UPP Foundation report on Public Attitudes to Higher Education (February 2023). The Foreword was jointly written by Richard Brabner, the Director of the UPP Foundation, and Nick Hillman, the Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We have launched a blog site for the network , which includes the short paper reporting the analysis, acts as an archive for information about previous events, and creates a space for comments about the future. Janja is published internationally on higher education policy, markets and education technology.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The arrangements were helpfully summarised in a blog by David Kernohan and Michael Salmon of Wonkhe on 8 April 2024, before most of the recent changes had been decided. Rob Cuthbert is the editor of SRHE News and Blog, and a partner in the Practical Academics consultancy.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This blog is in the form of an audio file by Nicole Cherruault, a journalist at The Times. This project came about after Nicole heard about HEPI’s 2022 report on the educational outcomes of Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (GRT). .” A full transcript is also provided below.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

This books is worth a mention here too because of the range of contributing authors, many of whom have been deeply involved in higher education policy debates, such as Sam Freedman, Claire Fox, Ralph Lucas, Ann Mroz and Jonathan Simons as well as the Vice-Chancellor James Tooley and the Social Mobility Commission Chair Katherine Birbalsingh.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. Training in the form of a PhD often has little development in teaching, never mind media and blog posting; we needed to get to the magic 80,000 words!

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HEPI

JANUARY 16, 2025

This indicator used data from the World Bank Group, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education Policy Institute.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Our job must be to examine the evidence.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Robert Crammond, Senior Lecturer in Enterprise at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). The question we must ask is: how can we apply these policies and principles in practice to create more enterprising universities? Get our updates via email. Email Address.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This blog was authored by Rose Stephenson (@rstephenson123 ), Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. As a reminder, education policy is devolved, so the new Government in Westminster will only be making changes to the English system. However, this blog primarily focuses on the funding of undergraduate teaching.)

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

This has never been truer than in the case of credit transfer the process by which a provider recognises the credit a student has successfully accrued at another institution, exempting them from modules or even whole years of learning that they have already undertaken elsewhere.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Calum MacInnes , Chairman of SAPRS (Student Accredited Private Rental Sector). Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Please get in touch with me if you wish to learn more about the SAPRS and its objectives.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer Knowing there is no easy way to “fix transfer,” the Beyond Transfer Policy Advisory Board (PAB) seeks to tackle the complicated problems and hidden complexities associated with credit mobility and transfer.

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

In HEPI’s final blog before the Easter break, HEPI Director Nick Hillman returns to the thorny issue of student number caps, arguing they’re for the many not the few when – in this instance – it’s the few that matter more. That’s how snail-like higher education policy has been in recent years, thanks to all the political turmoil.)

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This book review was kindly authored for the HEPI blog by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University. How to Enable the Employability of University Graduates , edited by Saskia Loer Hansen and Kathy Daniels, presents a compilation of best practices for enabling employability within higher education (HE).

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. It means meeting industry and health editors as often as those who follow the ups and down of education policy — opening the books on the struggle to make a difference. ‘ And so it is decided. It’s been a long wait.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. Martin’s work on the Codes , which drive up standards, is just one very clear example of how he has never lost sight of the needs of student tenants.

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HEPI

MARCH 25, 2025

I hope this is the only reason why, when asked to write a higher education policy speech in the style of Nick Hillman, ChatGPTs answer is so banal and vacuous…) People are, Warner says, attracted to AI because theyve not previously been given the chance to explore and play within the world of writing.

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Susan Mueller , Director at Stand Alone. Stand Alone has announced its closure and its higher education work is coming to an end. Will the sector continue to advocate for estranged students and drive policy change?

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Coursera blog

JULY 6, 2023

The National Education Policy 2020 emphasizes on training and preparing professionals in cutting-edge areas that are fast gaining prominence, such as machine learning, AI, big data analysis, etc., for enhancing the employability of the youth.

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HEPI

JUNE 26, 2024

This blog was kindly authored by Alastair Delaney, Deputy Chief Executive at QAA. In this way, it both assures and ensures that students should enjoy an equally high-quality experience in whichever UK nation they choose to study, or when accessing UK higher education delivered virtually or transnationally overseas.

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HEPI

JUNE 24, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Rose Stephenson, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the Higher Education Policy Institute. This blog considers some of the themes that emerged from this discussion. In May, HEPI and Kortext hosted a roundtable dinner on student perceptions of artificial intelligence.

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