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

APRIL 20, 2025

Archie Rankin is a History & Politics Student at Queen Mary University of London. HEPI recently published Boys will be boys: The educational underachievement of boys and young men , which discusses the lower entry rates of young men into higher education and proposes solutions, such as a ‘Minister for Men’, to address the gap.

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ACPA

MARCH 20, 2025

This Black feminist framework seeped into the higher education space with the creation of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and expansion of Black student enrollment (Sturdivant, 2024). This blog post calls Student Affairs professionals to action to value Other Mothers and reflect on their purpose.

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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.

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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). With September marking the beginning of the new academic year, most students will now be settled into their accommodation for the year and beginning their studies at universities across the country.

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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. Understandably, the Office for Students are prepping for the new regulatory powers the Bill will give them.

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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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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

As an undergraduate in the early 1990s, I did not find the computer room in my Department until my very final week, when I stumbled upon it by accident and found a few international students communicating with their families back home. On artificial intelligence or AI, it is important we engage rather run away.

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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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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

OCTOBER 26, 2023

These 10 points summarise the comments made by Nick Hillman, HEPI Director, at the launch of the interim Student Accommodation Costs survey in central London this morning. I have learnt more from Martin than from just about anyone else in the UK higher education sector.

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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 current students First , universities and colleges need to address child poverty by acknowledging its impact on current students. percentage points.

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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

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

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. But if Labour are going to tackle the high fees they say they so dislike (and boost student maintenance too?),

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s how the University of Virginia’s student government, student newspaper and a student group, the University Democrats , have described a new member of the university’s Board of Visitors, Bert Ellis, in separate but critical statements over the last several months. Image: Reckless. Reprehensible.

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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

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

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

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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Using exclusive QS data, it identifies where economies and countries need to align their higher education outcomes with the needs of industry in three key areas green, AI and digital. This indicator used data from the World Bank Group, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education Policy Institute.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

by Rob Cuthbert In England the use of the title university is regulated by law, a duty which now lies with the regulator, the Office for Students (OfS). 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

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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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. The math department may benefit by denying the credits and making the student retake calculus.

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SRHE

JANUARY 6, 2023

Prospective university students were in a similar position, being expected to make a cost-conscious decision about their degree education with limited understanding of their options. In research conducted for my PhD, I invited first-year students to participate in focus groups to explore their orientations to their degree.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

As HEPI has itself found out in the past , it is generally a thankless task to write about the educational underachievement of boys but it is an important issue nonetheless. I’ve contributed to the book as well.) Do suggest other books that should have been in the list in the comments section below.

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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. Many voices are needed to help inform policy but, as was clear at the event, this isn’t a simple case of finding one possible solution. In defence of me and my colleagues, we do try to do both.

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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

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

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. My side of the debate went down to a crushing defeat, but the event was followed by further (good-natured) argument in a local pub, showing lively student-promoted free speech in action.

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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). Universities are driven by several factors, from teaching and student satisfaction to the demands of the local business community , as well as the push to respond to social and technological change.

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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

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. He accepts it can produce grammatically and syntactically sound writing ahead of what most students can produce. ChatGPT cannot write.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This book review was kindly authored for the HEPI blog by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University. Drawing upon their expertise and professional networks spanning the international higher education landscape, Hansen and Daniels expertly curate this collection.

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HEPI

JULY 9, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Ruth Arnold , Director of External Affairs at Study Group. I think it’s safe to say that the person in his mind’s eye is not a struggling VC, underpaid lecturer or even a student missing lectures for work. There are many students who need urgent help now. And so it is decided.

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