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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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

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. He also wins the (coveted) prize for best graphics.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

While state-wide, policy-level initiatives are much more common in the US than in the UK, measures as simple as the introduction of a common system for course numbering have been met with resistance. The same approach could be taken with further guidance around credit transfer.

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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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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

This indicator used data from the World Bank Group, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education Policy Institute. Without specific policy and commitment, the UK risks losing its leading position.

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HEPI

APRIL 20, 2025

Policies to Address Inclusive Education and Rebuild Trust Among Disadvantaged White Men Many of these issues must be addressed by universities themselves. Male students often feel that higher education fails to cater to their unique needs. As Mr Raven notes in his blog contribution, it is certainly our problem, not theirs.

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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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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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HEPI

APRIL 27, 2025

In this blog, academics at the Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester give their thoughts on the report. 16 of the report), mental health, sense of belonging, and divisive university-level language policies may all have an impact. by Pippa Ebel. Beneath that, Pippa Ebel has provided her response.

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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

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

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

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

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). In their quest to build enterprising educational environments, institutions engage with industry and (international) governmental bodies through policy. Policy, practice, purpose.

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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

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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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

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

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

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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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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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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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. Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI and author of the report, said: The 2024 General Election will be unusual.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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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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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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HEPI

MARCH 25, 2025

Following HEPIs recent Policy Note on students use of artificial intelligence (AI), HEPI Director Nick Hillman reviews a new book from the United States on what AI means for writing. ChatGPT cannot write. The author John Warners persuasive argument is that generative AI creates syntax but doesnt write because writing is thinking. (I

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HEPI

APRIL 7, 2025

In this blog, James explains 10 things universities can learn from mergers in the FE sector. But they are both in the business of education, both have people at the heart of their institutions (on a major scale), both manage big cost bases and both suffer from similar issues around competition and government policy.

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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

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Yet not long afterwards, once Willetts had taken up his position as the Minister for Universities and Science, NUS-backed protests against the Coalition’s higher education policies turned into riots in central London. Oxford students want X’ carries a lot less weight or relevance than ‘the student movement wants X’.

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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. Called to account: Analyzing the origins and spread of state performance-accountability policies for higher education.

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