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How will technology change education in the future?

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 final point to make on tech, however, is that we must not forget the humans. The key is not to try and steer around it, but to take advantage of it.

Technology

Technology Education Humanities History

Why doesn’t higher education make a difference?

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

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Model Technology

‘How can I know what I think till I see what I say?’: How AI is changing education and writing

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. Writing is meant to be read.

Humanities

Humanities Education Technology Empower

Generative AI in universities: what are educators thinking?

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.

Education

Education University Higher Education Policy

?Key regulatory questions for universities on Freedom of Speech

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.

University

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Exploring Generative AI in higher education

HEPI

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The goal is to mimic the way humans create new ideas, concepts and designs that are both diverse and novel. It’s a large language model developed by OpenAI that can generate human-like text based on the data it has learned. This could include anything from text, images and even sounds.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Learning Experience Technology

Unpacking Financial Disincentives and Driving Beyond the Short-Term Reward Mind-Set

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.

Postsecondary Education

Postsecondary Education Department Degree Humanities

Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

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. We need beauty.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences Policy

Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

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!

Policy

Policy Higher Education Engineering Educational Policy

Should Oxford students walk away from the NUS?

HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Nonetheless, the disaffiliation campaign was really about the theatre of student politics – especially among us middle-class arts and humanities students. However, no higher education policy conversation ever sensibly starts with Oxford (or Cambridge) because they are so untypical.

Students

Students Arts And Sciences Higher Education Educational Policy

Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

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. Educational Policy, 27 (4), 645-675. Indeed, “one of the defining characteristics of current U.S. J., & Guerra, A.

Organization

Organization Higher Education Technology Institution

From knee-jerk reactions to saving the sector to opening the knowledge estate – discussions on generative AI

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. It was suggested that this was because we rely on and value human interaction in the learning process.

Higher Education

Higher Education Institution Policy Schooling

In search of a million pounds

HEPI

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This blog was authored by Lucy Haire, Director of HEPI Partnerships. In October, HEPI, with support from Lloyds Banking Group, hosted a roundtable dinner in Edinburgh on universities’ financial resilience as well as higher education’s impact on regional growth and prosperity.

Higher Education

Higher Education Educational Policy Humanities Achievement

Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

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. York University, one of the group of universities founded during the 1960s, also lists Professional Services.

Administration

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The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

This blog entry is an exercise in thinking future-forward, brainstorming-fashion (so all caveats apply!), As noted in many of these documents, the indirect impacts of human mobility to the UK, and EU research support, are plentiful too. about one possible risk-reducing option.

University

University Higher Education Model Technology

New research study: Flexible working arrangements and presenteeism in UK higher education during and post-COVID

HEPI

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This blog was written by Dr Fotios Mitsakis, Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent Business School. After we have collected and analysed data from the study, we will submit our findings to two academic journals: Studies in Higher Education and The International Journal of Human Resource management. Get our updates via email.

Higher Education

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Is DeSantis Right or Wrong?

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Leadership in Higher Education In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies in the Florida legislature have launched a major effort to create a more conservative state higher education system. Some valorize business and commerce, others the arts and humanities. They are held to a different standard.

Humanities

Humanities Higher Education Arts And Sciences Leadership

Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit

Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, popular courses in human physiology and public speaking have VR experiences from Coursera and Meta that enable learners to practice skills in a hands-on virtual environment. The post Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit appeared first on Coursera Blog.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Learning Experience University

Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit

Coursera blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For example, popular courses in human physiology and public speaking have VR experiences from Coursera and Meta that enable learners to practice skills in a hands-on virtual environment. The post Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit appeared first on Coursera Blog.

Higher Education

Higher Education Education Learning Experience University

What do students think about value for money?

SRHE

JANUARY 6, 2023

These students were enrolled in Social Sciences and Humanities courses. Kristina’s research interests are in higher education policy, mainly in relation to student finance, student choices, and marketisation. This blog is based on a chapter from her recently completed PhD. Email: k.gruzdeva@bham.ac.uk.

Students

Students Degree Higher Education Educational Policy

Key Considerations for Finding the Best Social Work Textbooks

Today's Learner

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards ( EPAS ), which are used to accredit B.A. At Cengage, we’ve made sure our newer titles map back to these standards, including the 7th edition of “ Human Behavior in the Social Environment: A Multidimensional Perspective ” by José B. Ashford, Craig W.

Learning Experience

Learning Experience Educational Policy Humanities Environment

Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

Higher Education

Higher Education Administration Education Policy

Deprivation data: Introducing a new UK-wide area-based measure

SRHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As the body responsible for the collection and dissemination of information about UK higher education, HESA has a role to play in supplying appropriate variables and statistics to our users that support them in their decision-making. Across two separate blogs we will be outlining what these are and the potential value they can deliver.

Disadvantaged

Disadvantaged Higher Education Degree Policy

Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

She blogs here. Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education. They are both based in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Academia

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Moving with the times: The growing need for better graduate mobility data

SRHE

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In a separate paper by the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance, researchers at the two organisations highlighted how one of the key factors that explains variations in productivity across areas are human capital levels – measured by the share of graduates in the locality.

Allocate

Allocate Higher Education Policy Humanities

The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2023

HEPI has marked the event with a Policy Note on the influence of the Robbins Report and a blog series – you can access all the material here. The review made a series of recommendations which have provided a reference point for comment on UK Government higher education policy ever since.

Humanities

Humanities Higher Education History Policy

Ten things we heard at the Labour Party Conference

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

This blog was authored by Rose Stephenson , Director of Policy at HEPI and Josh Freeman , Policy Manager at HEPI. Having returned from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool and dried out our shoes, bags and umbrellas, we round up the higher education themes we heard from three days of debate and discussion.

Higher Education

Higher Education Policy Achievement Provost

In praise of Dr Tony Bruce

HEPI

APRIL 14, 2024

In this blog, HEPI brings together a number of memories of Dr Tony Bruce from those who knew him well and who worked alongside him. Nick Hillman (Director of HEPI) Last month (March 2024) came the devastating news that Dr Tony Bruce, who wrote HEPI’s termly Policy Briefing Paper for HEPI Partners, had died after a short illness.

Policy

Policy History Higher Education Educational Policy

HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. 2022) Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education. The Messianic Character of American Education.

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‘How can I know what I think till I see what I say?’: How AI is changing education and writing

Generative AI in universities: what are educators thinking?

?Key regulatory questions for universities on Freedom of Speech

Exploring Generative AI in higher education

Unpacking Financial Disincentives and Driving Beyond the Short-Term Reward Mind-Set

Lunchtime Reading: Communicating the value of higher education to government in a new political era

Gamekeepers, poachers, policy wonks and knowledge

Should Oxford students walk away from the NUS?

Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

From knee-jerk reactions to saving the sector to opening the knowledge estate – discussions on generative AI

In search of a million pounds

Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

The UK University-Territory Relationship in a Post-Brexit World

New research study: Flexible working arrangements and presenteeism in UK higher education during and post-COVID

Is DeSantis Right or Wrong?

Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit

Coursera convenes leaders from over 60 universities and companies for Future of Higher Education Summit

What do students think about value for money?

Key Considerations for Finding the Best Social Work Textbooks

Preparing for Government again: how the higher education sector needs to prepare for the next Labour administration

Deprivation data: Introducing a new UK-wide area-based measure

Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

Moving with the times: The growing need for better graduate mobility data

The Robbins Review – Lessons for the Future by Professor Huw Morris

Ten things we heard at the Labour Party Conference

In praise of Dr Tony Bruce

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