Higher Ed Ethics Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Nevertheless, the majority of students (63%) agree that AI can’t replace human intelligence or creativity. Blog posted by Dr. Steven Mintz on August 2, 2023. Related Stories What Educators Should Know About ChatGPT Can Cheating on Steroids in Colleges and Universities be Stopped? The Ethics of “Ethical Hacking”

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JULY 24, 2024

One of the most effective yet often underutilized tools is blogging. As social media marketing has gained traction in recent years, many educational institutions wonder whether blogging is still a viable way to improve their brand awareness and boost enrollment. Start by determining the goals of your school’s blog.

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HEPI

MARCH 17, 2025

Abigail Hamer is Legal Principal at the Equality and Human Rights Commission. The Equality and Human Rights Commission is the regulator for equality and human rights issues. We intervened in the case of The University of Bristol v Dr Robert Abrahart to provide guidance to the court about the Equality Act 2010.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2025

Today’s weekend reading was written by Dr Andrew Woon, Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management at Queen Mary, University of London. Given that universities are not only institutions of learning and development but also the cornerstone of a nations competitive advantage, the impact of AI on education attracts significant attention.

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HEPI

MARCH 14, 2023

This guest blog in our series on leadership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education, NCEE , has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Abigail Woods, Pro Vice Chancellor / Head of College of Arts at the University of Lin coln. Things are not getting any easier for the arts and humanities in Higher Education.

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HEPI

MARCH 9, 2025

On the eve of the release of HEPIs Student Generative AI Survey 2025 , HEPI hosted a roundtable dinner with the reports sponsor, Kortext , and invited guests to discuss the following essay question: How will AI change the university experience for the next generation? Are we explicitly teaching these skills within the curriculum?

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

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The PIE News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Technology and automation are reshaping the job market; skills creation is battling to keep up and universities are exploring ways to equip their students for the workplace. For a deeper dive into this, you can explore D2Ls full blog. Take a look at our LMS for colleges and universities.

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

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Shadi Hijazi, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. But in the midst of an artificial intelligence gold rush, can universities ensure everyone plays fair? Each of these areas has AI implications, implementations and ethical aspects that universities can work on.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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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. We suggest that competence-based higher education is crucial to graduate success.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

By Dr Monika Nangia , Academic Registrar and Director of Student & Academic Services at Durham University. It connects us on a human level, fosters empathy, and confronts biases. According to Deloittes Global Human Capital Trends, organisations with inclusive cultures achieve 2.3 But beyond numbers lies the human impact.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2024

The argument presented recently on this blog by representatives of Oxford University decrying the linkage of OA to the REF (which is now proposed to apply to long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters) touches on some valid questions about implementation, but we do not find their arguments convincing.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

This blog was kindly authored by Annamaria Carusi , Director at Interchange Research. The Arts and Humanities make a substantial a contribution to the UKs economy: a House of Lords report gives the figure of 126bn as the creative industries contribution to GVA in 2022 , which compares favourably to the contribution of STEM subjects.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fact, according to RNL’s 2023 E-Expectations Trend Report , college and university websites are the single most utilized resource for students—and 58 percent of undergraduate students use search engines to find a college’s website. For all of these reasons, quality web content should be a priority for any higher ed marketing team.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

MAY 11, 2023

We love his warmth, candor, and willingness to put a human face on the challenges of higher education leadership. Leaders Are Human, Too President Sorrell believes that a leader's willingness to show vulnerability can become a strength. It's really important that we just be human." They provide professional development."

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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.)

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HEPI

MARCH 12, 2025

This HEPI blog was authored by Isabelle Bristow , Managing Director UK and Europe at Studiosity. We have recently commissioned a further YouGov survey to explore the motivations, emotions, and needs of over 2,200 students from 151 universities in the UK. 64% of all students have used AI tools to help with assignments or study tasks.

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HEPI

APRIL 11, 2023

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by James Fuller, who supports the senior team at Lancaster University having previously worked in secondary school leadership. In this blog, he considers some similarities and differences between the school and higher education sectors and considers himself very lucky to be in HE!

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HEPI

MAY 30, 2023

This seems unlikely given we have more, rather than fewer, universities since Thrun spoke and given the work many institutions have been doing to deepen their local roots. On a strike day, it is invaluable. COVID of course provided a sharp break point, speeding everything up.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JANUARY 15, 2025

Optimizing your website and blog content for high-ranking keywords can drive organic traffic from search engines. Incorporating these terms naturally into blog posts, program pages, and FAQs can help your school align with the needs of prospective students, driving meaningful engagement and boosting enrollment.

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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. So, the first thing universities need to do is to be as transparent as possible about the costs they face.

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HEPI

MAY 8, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Mary Curnock Cook CBE , chair of the Jisc-Emerge HE Edtech Board, and Nic Newman , Founder and partner at Emerge Education. This echoes the positive approach to generative AI shared by Sir Tim O’Shea in a recent HEPI blog post, which you can read here.

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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. This trend diminishes the human capital available to drive national innovation.

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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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HEPI

JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. What is the connection between political science and project management?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2024

If accurate, this statistic seems to reflect a substantial waste of human capital and raises questions about the state of the UK labour market and education system. To strengthen qualification pathways outside universities, a targeted strategy to foster middle-skill employment (while addressing skill shortages) is urgently needed.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

Reading Time: 11 minutes Today, universities seeking to improve awareness and boost enrollment face a unique challenge: how to stand out among many competitors and reach the right people online. The key to success lies in the effectiveness of the university’s marketing strategies.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This guest blog marking the publication a year ago of Living Black at University has been kindly provided by Sam Kingsley, Senior Belonging, Equity and Engagement Manager at Unite Students. To book a free place at the Living Black at University: Creating Meaningful Change conference, sign up at Eventbrite. Radical, right?

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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

MAY 30, 2024

Next Wednesday 5th June we are hosting a webinar on the Australian Universities Accord – you can register here. Earlier in May 2024, HEPI, with support from learning technology service Studiosity, hosted a roundtable dinner to discuss how important the human touch is in the age of AI learning.

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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. She writes here in a personal capacity, and you can follow Diana on Twitter @dianajbeech.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

MAY 11, 2022

I have previously blogged about doctored program information submitted by four prominent universities—Rutgers University, Temple University, Claremont McKenna College, and Iona College. The goal was to make their programs look better to university rating outlets such as U.S. Examining the Ethical Issues.

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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. Table 1: Department of Environment and Geography, University of York fieldtrips up to 2022-2023 What does this total figure equate to?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This blog was written by Izzy Cresswell. Izzy is an undergraduate student at Arts University Bournemouth who has experience navigating some of the challenges discussed in the piece. When someone is facing hardship, very quickly everything about what makes a person human is forgotten. University is still an exclusive club.

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