Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, writes today about next week’s Festival of Higher Education, which HEPI is helping to support. The fifth Festival of Higher Education is completely free and has a dazzling line up. Universities are rightly spending much time on the immediate and short term.…
The Higher Education Policy Institute has worked with Youthsight on a poll of over 1,000 full-time undergraduate students to see how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting them, ‘Students’ views on the impact of Coronavirus on their higher education experience’. This follows on from our previous polling, undertaken at the start of…
Key findings: One-in-five students (19%) say they have had ‘very clear’ communications on Covid-19 from their higher education institutions (down from 31% in March). Two-thirds of students feel positive about the communications, three times higher than the proportion who feel negative – 66% say the communications are ‘very clear’ or…
This blog was kindly contributed by Tom Calver and Professor Malcolm Press, Manchester Metropolitan University. The recent Nesta paper from Tom Forth and Richard Jones is an excellent and accessible summary of the regional imbalances in Research & Development (R&D) funding. Their analysis of the situation should capture the imagination…
Responding to the announcement from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy on support for UK universities during the crisis, Nick Hillman, Director of HEPI, said: My overwhelming response is positive. Universities have been wanting a package of support to stabilise what they do since the crisis began. My…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Liz Morrish, a Visiting Fellow at York St John University and author of two HEPI reports: Pressure Vessels: The epidemic of poor mental health among higher education staff (HEPI Occasional Paper 20), May 2019; and Pressure Vessels II: An update on mental health…
This guest blog was kindly written and contributed in a personal capacity by Dr Diana Beech, Head of Government Affairs at the University of Warwick and former Policy Adviser to the last three Ministers of State for Universities and Science. She was also HEPI’s first Director of Policy and Advocacy.…
This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire and Eileen Smith from Oracle. Today’s blog is the third this week we have posted on edtech, the first was on the student experience and the second was on e-assessment. One bright spot within the pandemic is that it has pushed information…
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) has published a new report on the experience of PhD students – people who are studying for doctoral degrees. PhD Life: The UK student experience by Bethan Cornell uses previously unpublished data from Nature and the Wellcome Trust to uncover the reality of life as a PhD…
PhD Life: The UK student experience by Bethan Cornell uses previously unpublished data from Nature and the Wellcome Trust to uncover the reality of life as a PhD student. The key findings include: the average PhD student works 47 hours per week, which is over 50% more than the average undergraduate and three…