Over the next 10 weeks, HEPI will be running a series of leadership blogs in partnership with the National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE). For more than 10 years, NCEE have run leadership development programmes for higher education to support creativity, innovation and the management of change. The first blog…
Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. Funding was awarded by Research England in 2020 for ‘TALENT’ – a transformation programme to advance status and opportunity for technical skills, roles and careers. The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. Here, Dr Helen Turner, Director…
This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Tim Bradshaw, Chief Executive of the Russell Group. The immediate challenge for the new Prime Minister will rightly be the cost-of-living crisis, closely followed by the related – and looming – energy crisis. But the new PM mustn’t lose sight of the bigger…
This blog was kindly contributed by Victoria Gardner, Director of Policy at Taylor & Francis. The questions How do we make research more usable? How do we ensure research benefits all stakeholders? Is it enough simply to make the outputs of research openly available? We explored these three questions at…
This blog was written by Dennis Sherwood, author of Missing the Mark: Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust, published by Canbury Press. It was recently reviewed in a HEPI blog by Rob Cuthbert, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at the University of the West…
This blog was kindly provided by Professor Ian A. Greer, President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University, Belfast. These are challenging times for us all. Internationally, we have war in Ukraine; nationally, we have a cost of living crisis; and locally, we have political uncertainty over whether a devolved government…
This blog was written by Paul Ashwin and Charles Clarke at Lancaster University. It is based on a recent Centre for Global Higher Education seminar: ‘The Politicisation of the Regulation of Higher Education in England: The Case of the Office for Students’ held at the UCL Institute for Education on 25…
This review was written by Daniel Dipper. Daniel is going into his third year of studying History and Politics at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, and is the current Oxford Union Librarian as well as Magdalen’s undergraduate president. Daniel was educated in a state comprehensive school and is the first in…
This blog was kindly written for HEPI by Dr Liz Morrish, who is Visiting Fellow at York St John University and the co-author of HEPI’s work on staff wellbeing, which is available here and here. It is the second review of the book that we have published, with the other one available here.…
By John Cope, former ministerial adviser and board member of the Institute for Apprenticeships & Technical Education. The recent story in the Financial Times that employers ‘lose more than £3.3bn in unspent apprenticeship levy funds’ is the latest in a long line of gloomy stories around the Levy. We have lurched between…