HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I was given the Fellowship in honour of my work on higher education policy and the-then Chair of QM, Sir Nick Montagu, gave a very nice speech about my career to that date. I have watched with huge admiration the rejuvenation of London Higher under Diana’s leadership.

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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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HEPI

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By Matt Riddle, Principal and Director of Learning Experiences, Curio The higher education sector is undergoing a technological revolution, with AI tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Midjourney leading the charge. Some have pointed out this is a chance to rethink higher education assessment.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. For higher education, a political affairs reset began long before the polls concluded. University policy briefings written, risks registered and manifestos and speeches scrutinised. And so it is decided. It’s been a long wait.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. For example, back then there was considerable uncertainty over many higher education policies.

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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).

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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? And they called on Stand Alone to help.

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HEPI

JANUARY 16, 2025

The QS World Future Skills Index , just launched, offers a detailed breakdown of the globes higher education systems, their links with industries and how countries are preparing for the next industrial evolution. Higher education in other markets globally is innovating at a far more rapid rate than in the UK.

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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. He provided some thoughts on what in higher education had changed for better or worse during this period. He writes here in a personal capacity.

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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.)

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HEPI

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Meanwhile, Russia and China continue with smartist policies, strengthening their power. When it comes to higher education, Mental Parity means a free-for-all for students, whose opposition to IQ tests is shown by their IQuit badges. Whats this got to do with higher education you may well ask. Merry Christmas!

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Paul Angrave , Associate Director of Public Affairs at the University of Leicester. Few would argue with the statements above, least not me as those who know me would testify, but the same could be said of UK higher education. billion through international higher education exports.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

by GR Evans This blog was first published in the Oxford Magazine No 475 (Eighth Week, Hilary term, 2025) and is reproduced here with permission of the author and the editor. Her chapters begin with a survey of the organisation of UK higher education today. The scope of the needs to be met is now very wide.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Julie Hyde, Director of External and Regulatory Affairs at NCFE. A new Labour government brings higher education policy into a new focus, both as a reflection of long-standing ideas and a look at what changes are to come.

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

Just ten years ago, in the words of Wired magazine, Sebastian Thrun declared that ‘ In 50 years … there will be only ten institutions in the world delivering higher education ’. Famously, after the Second World War IBM’s President said, ‘I think there is a world market for about five computers.’

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HEPI

AUGUST 1, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for the HEPI 20th Anniversary Collection by Roger Brown, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Policy and former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University. In July and August, we are running chapters from the Anniversary Collection as a blog series.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The responsible agency for naming was once simply the Privy Council, a responsibility transferred to the OfS with the Higher Education and Research Act 2017. 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.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2023

Peter Hitchens, A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System – This book is not primarily about higher education but is rather about selective schooling, which is a major feeder for selective universities. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

by Katy Jordan, Janja Komljenovic and Jeremy Knox The SRHE Digital University Network was launched in 2012, with a view to present “ critical, theorised and research-based perspectives on technologies in higher education ”. Janja’s research focuses on the political economy of knowledge production and higher education markets.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. She blogs here.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In doing so, we will fall far short of our ambitions for lifelong learning, a skills revolution and a more flexible imagination of higher education. But if the conversation continues to happen solely at an individual level, we risk a system which remains disjointed, opaque and disheartening to engage with.

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HEPI

JANUARY 30, 2023

Today’s HEPI blog is the text of a speech by Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, to a joint meeting of the Senate and Council at Lancaster University. On there, you will see a new blog entry by one of your own Professors, Paul Ashwin, Head of Department here for Educational Research.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This blog was written by Dr Fotios Mitsakis, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent Business School. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic , an urgent shift to flexible working arrangements was introduced both for academic and administrative staff in the UK higher education sector.

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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. ” According to the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) report, between 2020 and 2021, there were only 30 students from GRT backgrounds registered at the UK’s top-tier universities, out of a population of over half million GRT people.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. Learning experiences can be more personalized, interactive, and accessible.

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Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

By Scott Shireman, Global Head of Coursera for Campus Last week, we were honored to host Coursera’s Future of Higher Education Summit 2023, with delegates from more than 20 countries at our Silicon Valley headquarters. Learning experiences can be more personalized, interactive, and accessible.

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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 9, 2024

This blog was authored by Rose Stephenson (@rstephenson123 ), Director of Policy and Advocacy at HEPI. What do I want to see from the Labour Government in relation to higher education? Firstly, I want a proper, grown-up conversation about what the UK Government wants the English higher education sector to look like. (As

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HEPI

JUNE 16, 2024

New research from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the National Union of Students (NUS) shows the potential impact of student voters in the 2024 general election. The report includes a Foreword from Chloe Field, Vice President for Higher Education at the NUS. Read the report here.

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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). Previously a mooted buzzword, being ‘enterprising’ is now a necessity within educational settings. Entrepreneurial universities should provide professional development for staff. The UK scene.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Formed between 1969 and 1973, England’s polytechnics offered higher education courses in vocational areas. Although such courses seem commonplace by modern standards, at the time they were a fairly radical concept in higher education. The effect of policy drift.

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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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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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HEPI

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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