HEPI

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by John Raftery, Principal of John Raftery and Associates and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Wolverhampton and London Metropolitan University. English universities are, by many measures, consistently among the very best in the world, outperforming most if not all other competitors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

The data offers new insight on the contributing factors for the spike decline in enrollment at community college and universities across the country. This is a sharp increase from pre-pandemic levels that showed 14 percent of students feeling this way in EAB’s 2019 survey. These students are already faced with many disadvantages.

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HEPI

APRIL 5, 2023

(The original consultation came on the back of the Augar report which was published in 2019. I know higher education policy can be slow but the school pupils applying to higher education when the Augar report came out graduated last summer. You can register your place here.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

by Michael Shattock From decentralised to centralised Until 1919 UK universities, except Oxbridge and Durham, were primarily civic institutions created by wealthy citizens and governed by councils strongly represented by the founders and by local authorities and the local industrial community.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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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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