HEPI

MARCH 7, 2023

I jumped at the chance to speak to London Higher in part because I am an alumnus of our host institution, having studied here at the end of the last century when Queen Mary University of London / QMUL was known as QMWC or Queen Mary and Westfield College. I am also lucky to be an Honorary Fellow of this institution.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In HEPI’s 20th Anniversary Collection , Dr Mark Corver, Managing Director and co-founder of dataHE , set out the status quo of university funding. The funding system for undergraduate teaching in UK universities has drifted into crisis. ’ This extended piece is his vision for what that resetting may look like.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Simona Bizzozero, Chair, QS Reimagine Education Awards & Conference. The rapid advancement of generative AI is reshaping higher education, offering immense potential while also presenting complex challenges.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2024

We previously published a chapter by David Willetts , Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014. This chapter was authored by Chloe Field, Vice President Higher Education at the National Union of Students. Higher education is not just broken right now: it is heading into an existential crisis.

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HEPI

JULY 30, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Bridget Duffy, Year 10. When I think about higher education the only thing that comes to mind is university. Since this talk, I have completely forgotten all the details of the options given because no one has mentioned anything other than university.

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MindMax

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This blog post was written based on a conversation between Lee Maxey and Caleb Simmons , Executive Director of Online Education at the University of Arizona. The deal brought UAGC’s assets, faculty, and staff into the University of Arizona system. Watch the full conversation here.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Innovating Together: 6 Essential Episodes for Higher Education Leaders Elana Thu, 12/12/2024 - 06:25 Image Blog Post Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom Its been another great year for the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), and were happy to share our top six episodes from the Innovating Together Podcast.

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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

JULY 18, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Annabelle Earps , Digital PR Manager at The Workplace Depot. This raises an important question: should higher education courses in marketing and PR adapt to this digital era to better prepare students for the specific demands of this industry?

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Yike Guo. Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022.

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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. These tools are transforming the way students learn and the way universities and workplaces operate.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Nurun Nahar , Assistant Professor (Accounting with Business) at the University of Bolton. As higher education practitioners, it is crucial to draw a comparison between our expectations of an ideal digitally capable student and the reality of students’ digital capabilities.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2024

Professor Becky Huxley-Binns , Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education ( LinkedIn ), Professor Graham Scott , Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning & Teaching), and Mike Ewen , Head of the Teaching Excellence Academy ( LinkedIn ), at the University of Hull. Competence-based higher education responds to many global needs.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 29, 2023

As we look to the future of higher education, blended learning might be the model students need as they navigate an ever-changing and ever-challenging world. But, what does the strategic combination of online and in-person instruction really look like in higher education? University of Copenhagen. Prestridge, S.

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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 Professor Steve West, President of Universities UK and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE).

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HEPI

APRIL 7, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Leo Hanna, Executive Vice President at TechnologyOne UK. UK universities enjoy world-leading status, but the sector is not without its challenges. While the Australian migration context is vastly different from the UK, international education is a fixture of the economy.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JULY 16, 2024

We’re closer to high noon, where just about everyone is technologically literate — and empowered to access a universe of information with the tap of a fingertip. In the context of higher education, modern learners are a quick Google search away from answers to their most pressing questions. What Are Higher Education Keywords ?

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HEPI

MAY 29, 2023

Dr John Cater is the Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University. But the author can find limited evidence of the measure being used to help us understand decision-making in higher education. An A-level student heading to university is giving the experience three years of their lives. Perhaps it should be.

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HEPI

AUGUST 11, 2024

This blog was kindly authored by Joanna McCloughry , freelance consultant and trainer in trauma-informed approaches. There is no universally accepted definition of trauma; however, the word ‘trauma’ comes from the Greek word meaning ‘wound’.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by the Rt Hon. As a Cabinet Minister, he served as Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (2007 to 2009) and Communities and Local Government (2009 to 10). This blog is part of series of HEPI publications marking twenty five years of devolution. Professor John Denham.

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HEPI

MAY 20, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Vincenzo Raimo. Vincenzo is an independent international higher education consultant and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Reading where he was previously Pro Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

UCAS data show that in 2024, the number of 18-year-olds from Wales applying to university was the lowest in the UK. of 18-year-olds in England had applied for university by the end of June deadline, only 33.8% The percentage of 18-year-olds who applied to university from Wales reached a record high of 38.1% While 41.9%

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

AUGUST 7, 2024

Reading Time: 12 minutes As we navigate through 2024, the landscape of higher education marketing is evolving at an unprecedented pace. At HEM, we have dedicated the past 15 years to helping educational institutions thrive through innovative and effective marketing solutions. Contact HEM today!

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MindMax

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Note: This piece is part four of a multi-part blog series on alternative pathways in higher education. If you haven’t already read the first three pieces, you can find them here: Alternative Pathways in Higher Ed: Setting the Stage PLAs: How Many Credits Do You Get for Living? baked into standard 4-degree programs).

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HEPI

JUNE 6, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Synge , academic author and charity law specialist. On the website of nearly every university, you will find an explanation that the institution is a charity. And why are universities not generally talked about as charities, in the same way as, say, Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Support?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

By Emma Pettit Illustration by The Chronicle; photos from University of Iowa, Iowa Legislature, Alamy Chris Jones (center), a U.

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HEPI

APRIL 20, 2024

This chapter was authored by David Willetts, Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014 and author of A University Education (2017). Our universities face a funding crisis. Fees of £9,250 are not sufficient to cover the costs of delivering higher education to the typical student.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Tessa Harrison and Julia Roberts, Partners at the executive search firm GatenbySanderson, recently hosted a discussion with invited University Chairs and Secretaries to discuss current issues facing university governance. The Department for Education (DfE) is asking questions about the calibre of higher education governance.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The recruitment of university leaders, or more specifically vice-chancellors and their equivalent, is an opaque process. By comparison to other international higher education sectors, especially the US , and despite media headlines , UK vice-chancellors are poorly paid. Reasons are manifold. One is remunerative.

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HEPI

APRIL 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Tracey Lumb, of Students Organising for Sustainability and is part of two-blog series. This overview article introduces the pilot and will be followed by a case study from Keele University. Historically, UK university campuses have taken a zero-tolerance approach to student drug use.

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Dr Adrian Gonzalez ( @AGonzalez05 ) Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Director of Learning and Teaching, Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. However, HE, particularly in the Global North, faces increasing scrutiny and critique over its implementation of the sustainability agenda.

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The Berkeley Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

University of California President Michael V. California State University Chancellor Dr. Mildred García, and California Community Colleges Chancellor Dr. Sonya Christian released the following statement today, Wednesday, Nov. Drake, M.D., 6, 2024:

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HEPI

DECEMBER 1, 2022

How higher education governing bodies should measure the value of their institutions was the topic of a recent roundtable hosted by HEPI and Advance HE , attended by higher education leaders and other experts in the sector. Universities tend to be better at measuring their activities than their outcomes, Mackenzie argued.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Yet, despite a five-fold increase in journal articles published on higher education in the last twenty years, the OECD warns of a serious “disconnect between education policy, research and practice”. And despite universities promoting impactful research of public value, scholars complain of many barriers to entry.

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HEPI

AUGUST 21, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Joanna Burton, Head of Policy (Higher Education) at the Russell Group. Media speculation might have had us believe that young people were turning away from choosing university. But it seems that for many, university is still their first choice. in 2023 and 25.4%

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