The HEPI Blog aims to make brief, incisive contributions to the higher education policy landscape. It is circulated to our subscribers and published online. We welcome guest submissions, which should follow our Instructions for Blog Authors. Submissions should be sent to our Blog Editor, Josh Freeman, at [email protected].
This guest blog has been written for us by Dr Emma Williams, who is a consultant working with higher education institutions to illuminate wider career choices for early career research staff. Mystery. Suspicion. Bemusement. All reactions I have encountered to entrepreneurial events whilst working with early career researchers at a variety…
The following text is a transcript of a speech made earlier today by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Diana Beech, to the University of Salford’s Student Housing Conference. I have today been asked to speak on what it takes to create a world-class higher education institution, looking at what the…
HEPI has produced two recent reports on the important issue of students’ mental health (see here and here). Jointly with the Higher Education Academy, we also survey students each year to assess their wellbeing. So we were delighted to see the important new report from Student Minds entitled Student Mental Health: The Role…
The following text is a transcript of a presentation made earlier today by HEPI Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Diana Beech, at the National Union of Students’ Chief Executive Networking Event at Leeds University Union. I have today been asked to outline the key trends and changes in higher…
This guest blog comes from Mungo Dunnett, Director of Mungo Dunnett Associates, a strategic and research company working with UK schools and, increasingly, universities. I am not sure all universities understand how rapidly the higher education decision-making process is altering in private schools and the more selective end of the…
It’s already been an eventful start to the year in world of higher education. On Tuesday 30 January, HEPI and PwC are joining forces to run a breakfast briefing on the changing policy landscape as well as provide some practical steps that will help higher education institutions to be successful…
This guest blog has been written for us by Scott Kelly, the author of the HEPI report into Raising productivity by improving higher technical education. Scott was an adviser to the Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning between 2010 and 2012 and lectures at New York University in London. Many…
On Thursday 11th January, HEPI will get the New Year off to a strong start with our first event of 2018. In conjunction with Kaplan International and London Economics, we will launch a new report uncovering the costs and benefits of international students in the UK. The results will also…
As we head towards the close of the year, many of us will be reflecting on the year just gone and looking ahead to what 2018 has in store. This year, perhaps more than any other in recent times, has been relentless for UK higher education. Hardly a week has…
HEPI has had by far its busiest ever year on our blog (est.2014) during 2017. In a slightly shameless lifting of the excellent annual roundup of the most popular stories by Times Higher Education (see here for their 2017 list), we list below which of our blog posts have proved…