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  • Obituary: Professor Harriet Jones

    26 July 2022 by Mary Curnock Cook

    This blog is kindly provided by Mary Curnock Cook CBE. You can find Mary on Twitter @MaryCurnockCook. I was so sorry to hear that Professor Harriet Jones – Harry to friends and family – died at the end of May after a long illness with breast cancer, aged just 55. Harriet…

  • How international students can help bridge the UK’s skills gap 

    25 July 2022 by Meti Basiri

    This blog was written by Meti Basiri, co-founder and CMO of ApplyBoard, an international student recruitment platform. ApplyBoard empowers students around the world to access the best education by simplifying the study abroad search, application and acceptance process to more than 1,500 institutions across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom,…

  • What does post-legislative scrutiny look like?

    23 July 2022 by Dr Tom Caygill

    https://www.wfd.org/what-we-do/resources/post-legislative-scrutiny-uk-parliamentAs the Higher Education and Research Act (2017) is currently due its post-legislative scrutiny, this blog on how the process is designed to work has been kindly contributed to HEPI by Dr Tom Caygill, Lecturer in Politics at Nottingham Trent University and the author of ‘The UK post-legislative scrutiny gap‘…

  • Universities ‘should do more to prevent student homelessness’

    21 July 2022 by Greg Hurst

    A new report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, Could universities do more to end homelessness? (HEPI Debate Paper 30) by Greg Hurst, argues universities should do more to track and prevent homelessness among their students and could play a wider role in supporting efforts to end all forms of homelessness. It…

  • Breaking Down Barriers Together

    19 July 2022 by Diana Beech

    This blog was kindly contributed by Dr Diana Beech, Chief Executive Officer of London Higher – the representative body for more than forty universities and higher education colleges across London. It is a summary of remarks presented at Bloomsbury Institute London’s ‘Taking Shape: Teaching and Learning Conference’ on 13 July…

  • A Free Speech Champion or Censor?

    16 July 2022 by Dean Machin

    Dean Machin is Head of Public Policy at the University of Portsmouth. He is a former philosopher who has advised David Willetts. In 2015, he wrote a report on data-sharing for the Social Mobility Commission. Dean is writing here in a personal capacity. By the time the Free Speech Bill returns…