HEPI

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

It connects us on a human level, fosters empathy, and confronts biases. The stories we carry as women of resilience, determination, and overcoming barriers are far more powerful than any statistic or corporate policy. According to Deloittes Global Human Capital Trends, organisations with inclusive cultures achieve 2.3

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Leadership Inclusivity Humanities Policy 72

SRHE

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I was excited to attend SRHE’s event, Bridging The Gap: Improving The Relationship Between Higher Education Research And Policy on 4 November 2022. The event promised to bring together and bridge the gap between those making higher education policy and those researching it. This then was quite a gap to be bridged.

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Policy Higher Education Engineering Educational Policy 96

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. By sharing their personal experiences, they help humanize your institution, breaking down barriers and building trust.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Youre not supposed to have heroes at 40, or at least not admit to as much in the august pages of the HEPI blog. The first James (Jimmy) Anderson, Englands greatest living sportsperson – isnt relevant for the blog (although surely he deserves recognition from our great universities in the North West?). But heres my confession.

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University Disadvantaged Recruitment Humanities 69

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. By sharing their personal experiences, they help humanize your institution, breaking down barriers and building trust.

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Students Education Recruitment Schooling 95

HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This blog was kindly authored by Annamaria Carusi , Director at Interchange Research. This is a much-needed part of higher education strategy, especially given Labours framing of its policies in terms of missions. Annamaria recently joined a HEPI/Taylor & Francis roundtable to discuss advancing translational research.

Humanities 66

Humanities Arts And Sciences Model Policy 66

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

” A few short months after OpenAI released ChatGPT—a large language model with an unusual ability to mimic human language and thought—the company released an upgrade known as GPT-4. But by OpenAI’s own admission, humans are susceptible to overrelying on the tools, which could have unintended outcomes.

Policy 98

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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

Higher Education 64

Higher Education Education Model Technology 64

Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Want to know why John Guillory’s Professing Criticism has attracted such widespread attention? Over the course of a single decade, core humanities disciplines have lost half their majors, which has led growing numbers of campuses to reduce the full-time, tenured faculty. The field has fragmented.

Humanities 75

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HEPI

MARCH 6, 2025

TASO is partnering with The Policy Institute at King’s College London and Exogeneity to support a new initiative to scale behavioural insights , building on a previous study to turn evidence into action. False positives can arise in a manner of ways, but we can split them into three categories: statistical error, human error, and fraud.

Engineering 74

Engineering Higher Education Academia Guidance 74

HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

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. The final point to make on tech, however, is that we must not forget the humans. The key is not to try and steer around it, but to take advantage of it.

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Technology Education Humanities History 138

HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. How much public money should be spent and on what kinds of arts and humanities PhDs?

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Degree Arts And Sciences Humanities Model 134

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

APRIL 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Shadi Hijazi, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. AI-powered transformations bring new opportunities and attractive reductions in time and cost, but personalised learning and assessment require clear policies on transparency and accountability to foster trust among students and faculty.

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University Deep Learning Technology Academia 129

The Berkeley Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The latest episode of the Goldman School of Public Policy podcast explores water justice and public policy in California's Central Valley and roadblocks on the state's path to achieving the human right to water. The post Talk Policy to Me: There’s something in the water appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 28, 2023

[Editor's note: This article first appeared in Randall Collins' blog The Sociological Eye.] It will become a perfectly rational super-human thinker and decision-maker. It will be superior to humans in making purely rational calculations, aiming single-mindedly at maximal profit. It will solve all its technical problems.

Humanities 74

Humanities Environment Technology Engineering 74

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. appeared first on HEPI.

Education 133

Education University Higher Education Policy 133

HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Today on the HEPI website, Annamaria Carusi challenges the common assumption that translational research is only relevant to STEM fields, making the case for a broader, more integrated approach that fully values the contributions of the arts and humanities.

Higher Education 66

Higher Education Arts And Sciences Education Technology 66

HEPI

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

This blog, by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy Rose Stephenson, is an adapted version of a speech delivered in January 2024. I’m speaking this morning about developing robust safeguarding policies to enhance the student experience. I’m going to talk about several different safeguarding policies today.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This blog has been kindly written by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher, the representative body for more than 40 universities and higher education colleges across the capital. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Get our updates via email.

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Advise Higher Education Advocate Further Education 145

The Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

coauthored with Ilona Sologoub (VoxUkraine) and Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Geneva Graduate Institute, INSEAD and CEPR) The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine is a dark hour for humanity – massive loss of life, millions of destroyed families and homes, and enormous economic damages – but we have to think about how Ukraine will rebuild after.

Policy 72

Policy Humanities Institution 72

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. At SNHU, this approach has led to the development of policies and practices that prioritize the needs of students—particularly non-traditional students like working adults.

Higher Education 130

Higher Education Education Students Technology 130

HEPI

MARCH 18, 2024

This HEPI blog was authored by Josh Freeman, Policy Manager at HEPI, with kind contributions from Rebecca Mace, Senior Lecturer and AI Lead at the University of West London (UWL), and UCAS. This blog discusses the results. Even if such a policy is desirable, this poll shows why it may be practically impossible.

Advise 119

Advise Guidance Humanities Policy 119

HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Ian Pickup , Pro Vice Chancellor, Students, at The Open University, and builds on opening and closing remarks made at a recent HEPI round table event. Get our updates via email Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Technology 138

Technology Model Humanities Inclusivity 138

Coursera blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Encouraging women to pursue AI skills through educational initiatives and workplace policies will be crucial to narrowing the gender gap and ensuring AI benefits everyone. Human skills like assertiveness and communication are three of the top 10 fastest-growing skills overall, but Gen Z is more focused on green skills.

Humanities 52

Humanities Model Organization Engineering 52

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Throckmorton also blogged about the discrepancies back in 2009. “I do think that the article should be retracted,” said Throckmorton, who called it “trash” in a blog post last week about the new Editorial Expression of Concern. ” In a now-retracted 2012 paper under Donald I.

Liberal Arts 122

Liberal Arts Humanities Policy Faculty 122

LSE Higher Education Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

Since 2000 it has been structured as part of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) agreement which includes many different sectors, projects and partners including economy, trade, agriculture, human resource development, security and climate change among others.

Scholarship 60

Scholarship Higher Education Recruitment Policy 60

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. We should instead value that which is uniquely human. ChatGPT cannot write. Academics accustomed to peer review and the slow (tortuous?)

Humanities 117

Humanities Education Technology Empower 117

HEPI

MAY 4, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Jon Down , Director of Development and Ellie Garraway , CEO, of Grit Breakthrough Programmes. In his recent HEPI blog, Leo Hanna outlined the dangers of students’ expectations not matching up to reality: wasted opportunities for non-continuing students, lost revenue and reputational harm to institutions.

Students 143

Students Institution Recruitment Humanities 143

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. This issue was highlighted in my previous HEPI blog on freedom of speech here.) Finally, there is the issue of the Bill’s reference to students’ unions.

University 119

University Higher Education Advise Department 119

ACRLog

MARCH 21, 2025

In a shocking turn of events, students react better when you treat them as human beings and act human yourself. For example, in case you noticed in this blog post I avoided the phrase academic misconduct … academic integrity is much better because it places value on the goal, not the punishment. Int J Educ Integr 20 (26).

Environment 65

Environment Learning Experience Humanities Students 65

SRHE

JANUARY 31, 2025

by Charlotte Verney This blog builds on my presentation at the BERA ECR Conference 2024: at crossroads of becoming. Professional service roles within UK HE include recognised professionals from other industries ( eg human resources, finance, IT) and HE-specific roles such as academic quality, research support and student administration.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Policy Administration Advocate 52

Liaison International

JUNE 30, 2023

The largest growth areas across all countries are biological and agricultural sciences and mathematical and computer sciences, although the arts and humanities, business and education also show growth.” In addition, Americans are much more likely to say they strongly disapprove (29%) as they are to say they strongly approve (11%).

Policy 78

Policy Arts And Sciences Computer Science Students 78

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

This article first appeared in Maryellen Weimer’s blog in November 2009. Some student behavior is nothing short of outrageous, some department policies are nothing short of senseless, some department heads are nothing other than shortsighted, and some colleagues never experience a shortage of pessimism. © Magna Publications.

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Department Humanities Faculty Policy 111

HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. However, policies at government and university level have yet to catch up with this surging number in the context of the deterioration of relations with China. Get our updates via email. Email Address.

Academia 98

Academia Higher Education Policy Schooling 98

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.

Higher Education 142

Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences Policy 142

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. Narratives, she writes, are “ unanalyzed and powerful shapers of human experience.”

Humanities 98

Humanities Scholarship Policy History 98