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. And HEPI published its best-read report of the year, Provide or punish?

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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. We were on our third Universities Minister in three years, which seemed a lot at the time.

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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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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

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

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 6, 2023

This book review was kindly authored for the HEPI blog by Obinna Okereke , Project Manager for Student Experience at Coventry University. They also discuss the role of universities in shaping employability. For this university, the creation of the curriculum involved insights from businesses, education, and stakeholders.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. This blog entry is an exercise in thinking future-forward, brainstorming-fashion (so all caveats apply!),

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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 7, 2025

James is co-lead of Interpaths Education Team and has advised on over 20 mergers and potential mergers in the FE and HE sectors. In this blog, James explains 10 things universities can learn from mergers in the FE sector. Understand the regulatory landscape. Knowledge of precedents and other case studies will be helpful.

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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 ’. On a strike day, it is invaluable. COVID of course provided a sharp break point, speeding everything up.

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HEPI

JULY 16, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Giles A.F. Carden, Chief of Staff & Chief Strategy Officer and the University of Southampton. He provided some thoughts on what in higher education had changed for better or worse during this period. UK university spin-out investment increased from £1.06 billion in 2014 to £5.3

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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. There are three ways that child poverty matters for universities and colleges. The author is also the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Trust of London. percentage points.

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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

The UKs success in the QS World University Rankings by Subject allowed it to flourish here. Higher education in other markets globally is innovating at a far more rapid rate than in the UK. 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. That cannot be right.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2023

Nigel Thrift, The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities – The former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick takes aim at research universities for being too big, too focused on students and too uninterested in grand ideas. And if the government won’t do it, universities should.’

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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. Nicole holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History and Politics and an MA in International Journalism from City, University of London. A full transcript is also provided below.

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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. And so it is decided. After weeks of debates and polls, elephant traps and memes, the election is over. It’s been a long wait. No contest.

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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. It was suggested several times that both were primary and vital sources of knowledge for policy makers and university leaders. In defence of me and my colleagues, we do try to do both.

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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

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. It is a great pleasure to be back at Lancaster University. Back to the future I hope you will let me begin with some history.

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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. Government-defined Levels of higher education include Levels 4 and 5, placing degrees at Level 6, with postgraduate Masters at 7 and doctorates at 8.

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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

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

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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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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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. Only one-quarter of private providers and, more surprisingly perhaps, under one-half of universities are currently ‘innovating in the area of affordability (for example, new design, stock types or tenure)’.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

As the university is reinvented by education entrepreneurs across the world, Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus consider some of the tricky issues founders face, in this excerpt from The New Global Universities Higher education is a complex environment in which simple solutions often end up dashed on the rocks.

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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

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. Students will arrive at university having used GenAI in their studies at school and college.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

This is an extract from a speech delivered this week by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the Board of the University of Wolverhampton (with apologies to local band Slade for the title and to Alice Cooper for the subtitles). That was very recently rectified and so it is fantastic to welcome you as HEPI’s newest University Partner.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Pat Tissington , Academic Director (Employability and Skills) at the University of Warwick and Dr Pat Mertova , Consultant in Higher Education and Policy at the Associates in Higher Education Policy, Development and Quality (AHEPDQ).

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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. International students are vital to higher education and the UK – they bring global perspectives, talent, and skills to every part of our country. billion a year.

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