IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Federal, state, and institutional policymakers have the power to close these racial and economic gaps and promote equitable access to the better living and better life that higher education can provide. The Institute for Higher Education Policy. The Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The book brings together 55 different authors – including academics, a vice-chancellor and numerous education policy experts (such as Sam Freedman, Lord Lucas, Jonathan Simons , Ann Mroz and Tom Richmond). Another head, Jesse Elzinga, kicks out at universities’ entry procedures for encouraging depth over breadth.

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HEPI

JUNE 19, 2023

This blog is an extract from a speech that the Director of HEPI, Nick Hillman, recently made to the Board of Sheffield Hallam University. I started my remarks then by noting the level of flux in higher education policy. We were on our third Universities Minister in three years, which seemed a lot at the time.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

Stakeholders in UK higher education are exploring a range of potential funding models for undergraduate education, against a backdrop of financial sustainability concerns, course cuts and redundancies for higher education institutions. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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HEPI

APRIL 14, 2024

Tony was already writing HEPI’s termly Briefing Paper before I joined HEPI a decade ago as our Founder and now President Bahram Bekhradnia had signed Tony up partly on the basis of his excellent work heading up the policy function at Universities UK. There wasn’t anything Tony didn’t know about higher education and its ramifications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

Nicole Lynn Lewis, Founder and CEO of Generation Hope said that when she founded the organization in 2010, she knew that the mission was bold and ambitious. “At A senior at the University of New Orleans (UNO), she will graduate in May with a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and has aspirations of pursuing an MBA.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The simple truth is that the average student leaves university with £45,800 of debt and if they have nothing to show for it then we have failed them” (Hansard, 2021). by Peter Wolstencroft, Elizabeth Whitfield and Track Dinning. OfS, 2022a).

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HEPI

JULY 31, 2023

In the spring of 2002 I approached Sir Howard Newby, recently appointed Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), where I had been Policy Director for more than 10 years, with the proposition that HEFCE might support me in establishing a think tank devoted to higher education policy analysis.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Image: The Education Department is planning to use undercover agents—known as “secret shoppers”—to monitor colleges and universities that receive federal financial aid for potentially deceptive practices. The department’s decision to use secret shoppers is “four decades overdue,” he said.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

With presentations from UEL’s Professor Bugewa Apampa, Professor Julia Davidson OBE, Dr Michelle Morgan and Robert Gordon University’s William Hardie, the day’s conversations took in a breadth of topics including institutional equity, the Online Safety Bill, and the cost-of-living crisis. The former outcome is clearly unlikely.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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HEPI

JANUARY 31, 2024

The logic of fees Whether we like it or not, there is one higher education issue that tends to bestride all the others at general elections, and that is tuition fees. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. At least, that is what David Cameron did before 2010 and Keir Starmer has done more recently.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021. Lessons from the past.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

This is an extract from a speech delivered this week by HEPI Director, Nick Hillman, to the Board of the University of Wolverhampton (with apologies to local band Slade for the title and to Alice Cooper for the subtitles). That was very recently rectified and so it is fantastic to welcome you as HEPI’s newest University Partner.

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HEPI

APRIL 15, 2024

In reality, perhaps it was Thatcherism that secured the NHS – just as the NHS was also treated more positively than other areas during the post-2010 austerity, when it was protected against cuts, and also during the pandemic via massive increases in spending and borrowing. But what about higher education?

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SRHE

JANUARY 17, 2024

What has this got to do with an academic conference on higher education? My own work is concerned with discourse and narratives on the idea and purpose of a university and its role in society. Both of these presentations and my wider interests look at discourse and narratives as data in higher education policy and practice.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

And many experts believe DeSantis’s education agenda in Florida is intended more as a preview of his platform for 2024 than as a serious attempt to address policy concerns in his state. Higher education has been central to that agenda. law and systemic issues.

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