HEPI

JANUARY 16, 2025

The reputational strength of the UK – built on its history and tradition of delivering excellent teaching and learning – is unlikely to be the key driver of satisfaction going forward. This indicator used data from the World Bank Group, UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Education Policy Institute.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Amira Campbell, President of the National Union of Students (NUS). Some readers of this blog may be unfamiliar with the way guarantor requirements discriminate against both these specific groups of students, and in fact, many renters residing here in the UK.

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HEPI

MAY 24, 2023

This blog is written by HEPI’s Bahram Bekhradnia, HEPI’s founder and President. But taking care to ensure that the curriculum is inclusive, accurate and meaningful to the diversity of the student population?

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HEPI

JANUARY 2, 2025

This has led to accusations of greenwashing, in which universities (willingly or perhaps erroneously) overmarket and/or underdeliver their sustainability policies, and climate hypocrisy , where an internationalist agenda frames student recruitment (the drive towards overseas markets), research activities and partnerships.

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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

MAY 30, 2023

There is a long history of people getting their predictions about the future of technology, including the future of technology in education, wrong. 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.

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Academe Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Why invest our lives in becoming experts in history, society, policy, science, or any other field of study and then remain isolated in an academic cocoon for safety or career advancement? BY ALAN SINGER In times of crises, academics must be public intellectuals.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Let’s begin with the history of American higher education. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 15, 2024

The most prominent current policy initiative to address this issue is the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE), which gives people who have not been to university access to student finance. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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WCET Frontiers

JUNE 18, 2024

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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HEPI

JANUARY 21, 2025

Recent political motivations and wider geopolitical factors have contributed to policy churn on visa policies and delayed, or scrapped, funding arrangements such as Horizon Europe and the European Regional Development Fund.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I have been fortunate to have a perch on which to write about a host of highly charged issues that matter a great deal to me. Just ask yourself: Without sufficient graduate-level training in sub-Saharan African history, how can a teacher effectively respond to student questions? I don’t think so.

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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. It is an argument I have heard many times throughout the two decades that I have worked in higher education policy and politics. Our job must be to examine the evidence.

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Higher Education Education Equity Policy 138

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. Joseph Morrison-Howe is an undergraduate Economics student at the University of Nottingham. The prized outcome of markets is efficiency.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This blog was co-authored by Martin Betts, Emeritus Professor at Griffith University, Australia, and Co-founder of HEDx, Professor Ian Dunn, Provost of Coventry University and Chair of the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) , and Ceri Nursaw, CEO of NCEE. Get our updates via email.

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HEPI

APRIL 13, 2023

This HEPI Blog was kindly written by William Wells, Deputy Director Research & Enterprise Division at the University of Leicester ‘Why are you trying to build a Space Park in Leicester? The steps taken presaged critical regional policy advice, which would later form a component of the Levelling Up agenda.

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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 9, 2023

It’s a development historians say follows movement—particularly within the field of public history—toward broader recognition. “Historical work that lies outside the frame often includes activities most likely to influence public policy or enhance the presence of historians in public culture,” he writes.

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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. CUA traced its history back to the Meeting of University Academic Administrative Staff, founded in 1961.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 2021, Harvard University handed out 39 bachelor’s degrees in English language and literature, 118 in history, and 22 in philosophy.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2024

But over 25 years ago, I had the privilege of being his GCSE History teacher. As a voracious reader and lover of history and with a close-knit group of bright friends (one of whom is acknowledged in the new book as the person who taught him to write), Sam always looked destined for success on his own terms.

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HEPI

MARCH 20, 2024

This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dame Professor Jessica Corner , Executive Chair of Research England. I talk about that principle in a blog I wrote for Wonkhe in late 2023. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The war in Ukraine, says Ronald G. Suny, a leading historian of the Soviet Union and Russia and perhaps the foremost authority on ethnicity policies in the former Soviet bloc, is not just a military conflict. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The word “unconscious” is much in the news. I believe that students would benefit enormously from a greater familiarity with the history of ideas about the unconscious and the non-rational – about drivers of behavior and perception that generally exist outside conscious awareness. Ideology.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Priya Madina, Director of External Affairs and Policy at Taylor & Francis. In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Higher Education Institution Education History 108

HEPI

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Alice Wilby , Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Access, Participation and Student Experience) at University College Birmingham. We at University College Birmingham, are HEIs with a partially FE-history, and a legacy of specialist provision. How to do it?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It by Will Bunch. I hope that readers come away convinced that: A) We must support policies and politicians committed to investing in public colleges and universities, especially community colleges.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Everyone reading this blog knows that. Yet rather than punching its weight and driving policy, the sector kept its head below the parapet. The quality of governing and public sector oversight indeed over the 14 years of Conservative rule was the worst in the party’s history. Neither was my intention. There is now a clear choice.

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University Leadership History Policy 69

HEPI

JANUARY 29, 2023

This is an important new book on the history of grammar schools. They were genuinely intended to be untroubled by the annoying demands of examiners … It is now obvious that this policy robbed hundreds of schools of purpose and status. It also helped to make them unpopular.’ of pupils at modern schools were taking public exams by 1960.

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Schooling History Education Policy 119

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. ” That bit of history wasn’t helpful to newbies.) But failing to notice the history doesn’t make it, or its effects, go away. The focus that year was American history, and we were focusing on the Supreme Court and various civil rights cases.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 25, 2025

annually over the next five years 7 , indicating robust demand despite economic uncertainties and policy fluctuations. These institutions typically offer standardized loan products with competitive rates for students with established credit histories or qualified cosigners.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Emotions are on the bestseller list – and for good reason. Products of history. In his 1882 book, The Gay Science , Friedrich Nietzsche asks: “[W]here [can] ‘you find a history of love, of avarice, of envy, of conscience, of piety, of cruelty?’, Influenced by cultural context.

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WCET Frontiers

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the PhilonEdTech blog post review of the release, Phil Hill opined: “Basically, if a vendor provides software and services enabling in almost any way an academic program eligible for Title IV financial aid, that vendor may be considered a TPS with all of the increased regulations.” Their membership did not influence our analysis.

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