HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

Climate hypocrisy in Higher Education The climate crisis and global attempts at strengthening the sustainable and low-carbon transition is arguably the most critical issue we face and there is clear evidence to show strong Higher Education (HE) support for this twin approach.

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The PIE News

APRIL 24, 2025

The announcement came in early April, when Opposition leader Peter Dutton unveiled a suite of policy intentions for the international education sector. I doubt this will fall significantly anytime soon and this may create political pressure for more restrictive policies.”

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HEPI

APRIL 12, 2025

In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.

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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. Students views on generative AI in higher education.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Below, as the government considers higher education reform, Dr Brooke Storer-Church and Dr Kate Wicklow make the case for specialist higher education institutions and warn against the dangers of homogenisation. By Dr Brooke Storer-Church , Chief Executive and Dr Kate Wicklow, Director of Policy & Strategy at GuildHE.

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SRHE

APRIL 4, 2025

by Hans de Wit, Tessa DeLaquil, Ellen Hazelkorn and Hamish Coates Hans de Wit, Ellen Hazelkorn and Hamish Coates are editors and Tessa DeLaquil is associate editor of Policy Reviews in Higher Education. This blog is based on their editorial for issue 1, 2025. An alternative TNE model?

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Today on the HEPI blog, you can read about how University Alliance members are using healthcare degree apprenticeships to address workforce shortages: click here to read. By Viggo Stacey, International Education & Policy Writer at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. It’s National Apprenticeship Week.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Below is our annual round up of the most popular HEPI blogs from the past year. She may only blog for us occasionally, but HEPI Trustee Mary Curnock Cook bags the top spot – and not for the first time. Mary also has an entry this year at number 16, with a counter-intuitive piece on minimum entry requirements for higher education.

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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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SRHE

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Moreover, academic studies have contended that datafication has become an intractable part of higher education institutions (HEIs) across the world. by Rachel Brooks Intractable datafication?

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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. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

By Mohammed Bashiru and Professor Cai Yonghong Introduction The idea of institutional autonomy in higher education institutions (HEIs) naturally comes up when discussing academic freedom. How does institutional autonomy influence academic freedom in higher education institutions in Ghana?

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cadmus is running a series of collaborative roundtables with UK university leaders about the challenges and opportunities of generative AI in higher education. In the loop AI policy in HE is an increasingly complex area, with staff AI literacy requiring as much attention as student use of GenAI tools.

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HEPI

MARCH 8, 2025

Women in higher education and industry leadership, especially in Engineering and STEM, have reshaped academia and industry through groundbreaking contributions. Black women have broken barriers in education, research, and industry, driving policy changes and fostering inclusivity. Much work remains.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The demand for graduates in Wales is not decreasing – the UK Department for Education projects that the nation will need 402,825 graduates to fill roles by 2035. So why has there been such a sudden drop in Welsh 18-year-olds engaging with higher education? As the UCAS research notes, this could suggest there is a supply issue.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After demonstrating that none of the responses available to universities look like they might work, I suggested that the moment when a more comprehensive rethink of how we fund higher education might be worth the risk was fast approaching. Since July the contours of the 2023 admissions cycle have become clear.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This blog post was written based on a conversation between Lee Maxey and Paul LeBlanc , author of Students First: Equity, Access, and Opportunity in Higher Education. This small but significant change reflects a larger commitment to making education more accessible and removing obstacles that can stand in the way of success.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Colin Riordan, Secretary General and Chief Executive Professor of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU). Through PEBL we partnered with universities in East and West Africa to deliver online and blended learning, helping to meet demand for higher education.

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

The logic of fees Whether we like it or not, there is one higher education issue that tends to bestride all the others at general elections, and that is tuition fees. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. He then, oddly, put a policy he apparently didn’t agree with at the heart of his election campaign.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By comparison to other international higher education sectors, especially the US , and despite media headlines , UK vice-chancellors are poorly paid. Brexit has made UK higher education a less desirable destination for senior leaders. Reasons are manifold. One is remunerative.

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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

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

JANUARY 21, 2025

It is not news that the higher education sectors relationship with international activity is strained, from recruiting students to delivering research and innovation partnerships with institutions overseas. Ultimately, this landscape has led institutions to prioritise developing short-term partnerships to solve long-term problems.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Janet Ilieva, Founder and Director at Education Insight, and Vangelis Tsiligiris, an Associate Professor at the Nottingham Business School at Nottingham Trent University. Implications In 2021/22, almost one in four students in UK higher education was international.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2024

HEPI recently published a collection of essays on the issue of funding undergraduate degrees, curated by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy Rose Stephenson. This chapter was authored by Chloe Field, Vice President Higher Education at the National Union of Students.

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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

APRIL 15, 2025

Higher education has always played a critical role in skills development, from professional fields like Medicine, Dentistry, and Engineering to more recent models such as degree apprenticeships. With the new higher education reform expected in Summer 2025, the sector faces a pivotal moment.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Ian Crichton , CEO of Study Group. For the past year, I have been privileged to lead a global provider of international education. We work with 15 high-calibre higher educational institutions of different types in the UK and Ireland. But there is something else I would add.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2025

A staggering one-third of the American population reports having no confidence in higher education. With decades of research and policy leadership behind it, Lumina has taken the long viewand a bold one. The question they posed was simple but profound: “What does the nation need from higher education in the next 15 years?”

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ahead of a House of Lords debate on the topic of lifelong learning later this week , today’s blog features two posts on the topic. By excluding this level of study, the ambitions of the Government will not be as great as they could be, and it is a huge, missed opportunity for higher education and this is why.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

For educators, this day can inspire curriculum development, community engagement, and reflection on policies to ensure a commitment to equity and inclusion. As we observe Juneteenth this week, I hope we can embrace the chance to educate ourselves and others about this important day.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

John Cater is the longest-serving Vice-Chancellor in UK higher education, having been in post since 1993. And every cost in higher education has increased, except the tuition fee. If we do not have a sustainable sector by the end of this Parliament, for higher education the next decade could be cataclysmic.

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HEPI

MAY 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Peter Ainsworth, the author of Setting Universities Free: How to deliver a sustainable student funding system (2022) Picture the 1930s economic slump, absent Keynes’s challenge to prevailing thought.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Baroness Tessa Blackstone. Baroness Blackstone was Minister for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, and has led two universities: Birkbeck, from 1987 to 1997, and the University of Greenwich, from 2004 to 2011. These are now essential, expected elements of our higher education system.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 22, 2025

In this blog, well explore the enrollment-boosting potential of student ambassadors and UGC for education marketing, the benefits they offer, and actionable steps to integrate them into your strategy. This can include photos, videos, testimonials, social media posts, or blogs that showcase their authentic experiences.

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