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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Sam Bailey-Watts of FRAH Consulting An overview The UK media outlets filled many column inches through September and early October 2022 as the scale of the student housing shortage, in some cities and towns in the UK, became apparent. It had been widely…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Meilssa Bowden, Content Writer at Kortext. If you want to know more about the impact of AI on higher education, Kortext Live, a free in-person event at Imperial College London, is taking place on 25 April 2023. What is artificial intelligence?…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Robert Partridge, Executive Director of Student and Academic Services at the University of Glasgow. Over the pandemic years, the number of students enrolled on degrees taught outside the UK has continued to grow. According to UUKi’s 2020/21 report, there were over half…
This HEPI Blog was kindly written by Stephanie Smith, Deputy Director of Policy at the Russell Group. Plans to look again at the UK’s Integrated Review – the document setting the tone for our foreign policy and defence priorities – were announced during the short-lived premiership of Liz Truss. Picked…
This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. Join Marion, Lord (Jo) Johnson, Molly Morgan-Jones and Bobby Duffy at a free event on 26 April to discuss…
This HEPI blog was kindly written by Tracy Lumb, of Students Organising for Sustainability and is part of a two-blog series. This overview article introduces the pilot and will be followed by a case study from Keele University. Two years after Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) launched the Drug and…
This HEPI blog was kindly written by Stephanie Marshall, Vice-Principal (Education) at Queen Mary University of London. HEPI and Advance HE are hosting a free webinar ‘Shifting priorities: has the teaching and learning agenda slipped off the sector’s radar?’ on Wednesday 26 April 2023 from 11am to 12.15pm, with a panel…
This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Dennis Sherwood, the author of Missing the Mark – Why so many school exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust, (Canbury Press, 2022). GCSE, AS and A level students will soon be sitting their exams. Their goal will…
This HEPI Blog was kindly written by William Wells, Deputy Director Research & Enterprise Division at the University of Leicester ‘Why are you trying to build a Space Park in Leicester? You don’t really have a space industry there.’ This question posed to me by a civil servant at a…
This blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Jo Richards, Senior Insight Lead at UCAS. The cost of living is the topic at the top of everyone’s minds over the past year, and it is likely to be with us for a while. Students are one group that have…