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  • New Insights on WP: Improving retention

    23 August 2017 by Ellen Pope, Neil Ladwa and Sarah Hayes

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Since last week, we have been showcasing the contents of…

  • New Insights on WP: Bristol scholars

    22 August 2017 by Judith Squires

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Since last week, we have been showcasing the contents of this…

  • New Insights on WP: Good practices in fair access

    21 August 2017 by Anne-Marie Canning

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Since last week, we have been showcasing the contents of this…

  • New Insights on WP: Care leavers and their paths to higher education

    18 August 2017 by Chloë Cockett

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the…

  • New Insights on WP: A more radical approach to contextualised admissions

    17 August 2017 by Vikki Boliver, Stephen Gorard and Nadia Siddiqui

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the…

  • New Insights on WP: The importance of social capital

    16 August 2017 by Paul Clarke

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the…

  • New Insights on Widening Participation: Foreword by Les Ebdon

    15 August 2017 by Les Ebdon CBE DL

    On 14 August 2017, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and the social mobility charity Brightside jointly published a collection of essays by senior higher education figures entitled ‘Where next for widening participation and fair access? New insights from leading thinkers’. Over the next few weeks, we will be showcasing the…

  • How the book can become a badge of belonging in higher education

    21 July 2017 by Alison Baverstock

    This guest blog was written by Alison Baverstock, Associate Professor at Kingston University and Director of The KU Big Read. I’m feeling conflicted. Obviously this article is being published after internal consultation at Kingston University, but I am nevertheless aware that I’m in danger of revealing a significant Kingston USP,…

  • How do you create a university for students?

    14 July 2017 by Jon Wakeford

    This guest blog comes from Jon Wakeford, Group Director, Strategy and Corporate Communications, at the University Partnerships Programme (UPP). It was originally presented as a speech at the 2017 HEPI Annual Conference at Regent’s University London on 7 June. With the numerous political and economic upheavals taking place in the UK…

  • Being an ombudsman in higher education: a review

    7 July 2017 by Diana Beech

    ‘Ombudsmen in higher education are a growing and distinct cadre’, writes Rob Behrens, Visiting Professor at UCL Institute of Education and Independent Adjudicator and Chief Executive of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA) for Higher Education in England and Wales between 2008 and 2016. It is these eight years…